Monday, March 3, 2008

March 3/4 Moon Dance

Today we explored the major moons in our solar system. We toured Luna, Phobos and Deimos (Mars), the four Galilean moons, Saturns Titan and Mimas (the death star moon), Uranus' sideways spin, Neptune's Triton and lonely Pluto and Charon.

We then modelled the phases of the moon using an extremely bright lightbulb and some styrofoam mini moons. We saw waxing crescents, quarter moons, waxing gibbous moons, full moons and then waning gibbous and crescent moons. We also created solar and lunar eclipses.

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