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Activity (Hands-On)Grades 3 - 6

Lunar Lollipops: Reproducing the Moon Phases

Materials List

  • a large hanging lightbulb or a lamp without a shade; this works especially well with a high-wattage bulb, 75 watts or higher; for small classes, have students cluster around one lamp; for large classes, have several lamps with 3-4 teams around each lamp
  • Styrofoam ball or other spherical object such as fruit that is ~3-4 inches in diameter, one per team
  • sharpened pencil, one per team
  • plenty of room for students to move around
  • pencils, to fill in the worksheets
  • Moon-Earth-Sun Positions Worksheet (PDF), one per student
Lunar Lollipops: Reproducing the Moon Phases - Activity - Teach Engineering