In this lesson, students use their knowledge of moon phases to build a calendar they can use to find out when and where to see each phase of the Moon throughout the year. 2024 calendar now available!

Students use simple materials to model a partial, annular, and total solar eclipse.

Students predict the scale of our solar system and the distance between planets, then check their answers using fractions.

Students use a paper plate to make a model that explains why lunar eclipses don’t occur during every full moon.

Students learn about the phases of the moon by acting them out.

In this illustrated problem set, students use the mathematical constant pi to solve real-world science and engineering problems related to craters on Mars, a total solar eclipse, a daring orbit about Saturn, and the search for habitable worlds.

Students identify the Moon’s location in the sky and record their observations over the course of the moon-phase cycle in a journal.

Students learn about scale models and distance by creating a classroom-size Earth-Moon system.

Students use the mathematical constant pi to measure the approximate size of the shadow that will fall on Earth during a total solar eclipse.