We're in the middle of one of our last Science Units of the year- Space and the Moon Phases! We have been watching a few videos talking about how the Earth is tilted, the moon orbits the sun, and the moon has 8 moon phases. This is an extremely difficult concept to understand- how the moon orbits the Earth and has different amounts of views from the sun's light reflection. In order to explain it better, the kids were able to put it to work. The bright light is our sun, the glob is the Earth and the foam ball is the moon. The kids moved the moon around the globe to simulate the moon orbiting the sun. As we moved the moon around, we were able to see that most of the time only part of the moon is "lit" up by the sun's reflection. Other times, the moon is completely black (new moon) and completely lit up (full moon).
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