Sunday

Learning the Phases of the Moon



While learning about the Earth's rotation and revolution around the sun, we also studied the phases of the Moon. To allow the students to have a better visual, I had donations of Oreos brought in to conduct an experiment. I separated the students into small groups (so that each student may have an opportunity to be involved) and gave the students 8 Oreos each. With those 8 Oreos, the students had to separate the sandwich and scrap off the correct amount of icing to replicate the correct moon phases.
They had so much fun and really had a chance to understand what the Moon looks like during each phase! Great activity!

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