DSERT - 6 - Science :: Phases of the Moon
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[Contributor - Kripa S]
Objective: To teach about moon, phases of moon
Subtopics to be covered:
- Moon - its rotation and revolution
- Phases of moon - waxing and waning
Learning Outcome:
- Students know about moon and its movement around earth
- They know about Lunar month
[Contributor - Kripa S]
http://ktbs.kar.nic.in/new/website%20textbooks/class6/6th-kannada-science.pdf#page=243 (Kannada Medium)
http://ktbs.kar.nic.in/New/website%20textbooks/class6/6th-english-science.pdf#page=243 (English Medium)
[Contributor - Abantika Ghosh]
Activity 1:
- Make a team of 2 or more. Each team can have 8 students.
- Ask students to cut out circular shapes from a white chart paper which would be their moon.Ask them hold up their Moons.
- Have them stand facing the Sun/lamp at “noon” with the Moon between them/Earth and the Sun. What do they see? [New Moon or No Moon or a dark moon]
- Have them stand at midnight, with the Moon opposite the Sun. Make sure students hold their Moon high enough for it to catch the light. What do they see? [Full Moon]
- Go back to noon (New/No Moon) and ask them to move their Moon a bit to the left. What do they see? [small, waxing crescent] On what side of the Moon is the crescent?
Have students continue moving their Moon leftward to first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, and back to new. Give students time to experiment with their Moons. Remind them that, all this time, their head/Earth is spinning through about ~29 day-night cycles during the time it takes for one month/month to go by. Point out that there are 2 points during the cycle when the Moon is in a crescent phase (waxing and waning), a gibbous phase (waxing and waning), and a quarter phase (first and last quarter). Ask participants to verbalize what differentiates these [the sides of the Moon which are light or dark; the light part is always “pointing” towards the Sun]
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