PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Moon Over a Month: Lesson Plan
Students observe, identify, and describe how the Moon appears to change over the course of a month. They engage with a media slideshow of real-life images to describe how the Moon appears to change in a predictable pattern each month. It...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Different Appearances of the Moon
The digital slideshow provides students with the opportunity to observe and use evidence from their observations to predict and record how the Moon appears to follow a regular pattern of change over time. Teaching tips and background...
Read Works
Read Works: The Moon Journal
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Amir who keeps a journal of the moon he sees each night. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
The Happy Scientist: Why Is a Full Moon So Bright?
Activity helps students find out why a full moon is so bright.
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Observing the Moon
Students make drawings of the moon at different times to see if the moon always looks the same and if its surface looks different at different times.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Life on the Moon
Students learn about the physical properties of the Moon. They compare these to the properties of the Earth to determine how life would be different for people living on the Moon. Using their understanding of these differences, they...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Moon Phases (Smart Created)
Learn the names of the phases of the moon including the terms waxing and waning.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Models of the Earth and Moon
This lesson plan from the Illinois Institute of Technology demonstrates the causes of; day and night, seasons, and phases of the moon.With a few items, you help the elementary student discover why these phenomena occur.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Oreo Cookie Moon Phases
Science Bob provides instructions for making phases of the moon with Oreo cookies with fun moon facts.
Other
Lunar and Planetary Institute: Moon Flip Book [Pdf]
Hands-on activity allows children to learn the phases of the Moon by creating their own flip book.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye: Baseball Moon
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how you can use a lamp and a baseball to understand the phases of the moon.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Phases of the Moon
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart demonstrates how the positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun cause phases of the Moon. It also illustrates the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun during a day and a month's time.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Phases of the Moon
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a one page flipchart that reviews the phases of the moon.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lunar Language
This lesson engages students in listening and viewing comprehension strategies to help them learn about the phases of the moon. Students will use a specialized graphic organizer to draw and describe observed moon phases. A sheet with ABC...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Moon Phase Craze
This lesson is designed to use online technology resources to practice and reinforce knowledge learned in class on Moon Phases. Middle schoolers will view online animations with student interaction, while keeping a log of their phase...
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: The Moon
Read about the birth of Earth's moon, its composition, orbit, visible phases, and other interesting facts. Link to a virtual moon phase interactive which shows the current lunar phase and the phase on any date in the past or future.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Moon Phases Box
This activity is designed to allow learners to observe and recognize the phases of the moon. They will develop a better understanding of the relationship between the position of the earth, moon and sun and how that affects the area of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Oreo Cookies to Discover the Moon Phases
Students will understand the phases of the moon by scraping away the frosting from the inside of Oreo cookies, and placing them in moon phase order.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: The Sun Earth Moon System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses solar and lunar eclipses, the phases of the Moon, and why the phases occur.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Moon Phases
This lesson will familiarize students with the phases of the moon. It can be taught in a unit dealing with the solar system. It involves all learning types-kinesthetic, auditory, tactile, and visual.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Our Solar System: The Moon
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the moon. It discusses the moon's phases, its rotation, and characteristics of the moon.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Aspire: Lunar Phases
Two-part activity teaches about the phases of the moon.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Moon Light Through the Month
In this lesson, students are asked to order cards showing different phases of the moon. Includes student handouts.