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JanuaryWolf Moon FebruarySnow Moon MarchWorm Moon AprilPink Moon MayFlower Moon JuneStrawberry Moon JulyBuck Moon AugustSturgeon Moon SeptemberHarvest Moon OctoberHunter's Moon NovemberBeaver Moon DecemberCold Moon Traditional names given to each month's full moon from the “Old Farmer’s Almanac”

Man in the MoonLady reading Book St. George Slaying DragonRabbit Beetle

How High Is It?

An Educator’s Guide with Activities Focused on Scale Models of Distances Grades 5-8 National Mathematics Standards: MEASUREMENT – NUMBER OPERATIONS Grades 6-8 National Technology Standards: NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY Grades 6-8 National Science Education Standards UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES – EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE – SCIENCE & TECHNOGY Grades 5-8

How High Is It? Rationale Many students have difficulty conceptualizing distances on Earth and a more difficult time conceptualizing distances above Earth. In addition, many students may not be able to connect previous knowledge they have acquired in science to chart, for example, where aircraft travel in comparison to weather balloons, sounding rockets, or spacecraft.

How High Is It?

Why are vertical distances more difficult to visualize than linear distances? How high is the highest mountain? Where do jets fly above Earth? Weather balloons? Sounding rockets? The Space Shuttle? Where above Earth are the auroras and streaking meteors? How far does the atmosphere extend above Earth– or where does space begin?

How High Is It? HOW HIGH IS IT? Activity Page 22 Make a model of Earth’s atmospheric layers on a six Page-high chart and place small pictures of NASA vehicles at the appropriate altitudes Materials: How High Is It? Workshop, Scissors and Tape

Lunar Phases New Waxing Crescent First Quarter Waxing Gibbous Full Waning Gibbous Last Quarter Waning Crescent

How Much Would You Weigh On The Moon? On the Moon, a 100 lb student would weigh how much? The Moon has a gravitational field that is 1/6 of Earth’s 1 / 6 = lbs X 10016

How much would a space suit weigh on the moon if the suit weighs 375 lbs on Earth? 1 / 6 = lbs! X 37560

How much would bar-bells weigh on the moon if they weigh 200 lbs on Earth? 1 / 6 = lbs X 200

President John F. Kennedy gave the nation the goal of landing men on the Moon before the end of the 1960’s. "...I "...I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. earth. “ Stages to the Moon

Apollo Moon Landings

Stages to the Moon LIVE From the Moon CBS NEWS

Earth Moon Distance MODEL THE DISTANCE TO THE MOON Divide distance to Moon by Earth’s Circumference Mean 384,400 km / 40,000 Km 9.61

Gravitational interaction (tides on the Earth caused by the Moon) transfers kinetic energy from Earth to the Moon, slowing Earth's rotation and raising the Moon's orbit, currently at a rate of 3.8 centimeters per year. Bye, Bye, Moon 3.8 centimeters per year 2011 – 1969 = centimeters

Crater Formations and Noticeable Features Lunar Features and Tid- Bits

Barringer Crater, Arizona Wolf Creek, Western Australia New Quebec, Quebec, Canada Moon Crater

Mercury Elysium Planitia, Mars Impact Craters, Venus

Crater Types

Observation Ejecta Crater Wall Rays Floor

Craters, Craters, Craters Everywhere

Lunar and Meteorite Briefing Giant Impact Theory

Moon Creation Theory Giant Impact Theory

Ganymede - JupiterCallisto - Jupiter Janus - SaturnUmbriel - UranusProteus - Neptune Phobos - Mars 140+ moons in the solar system

Research Questions The Moon In Ancient History The Moon In Modern History The Moon In Religion Moon Legends and Tales The Moon In the Arts

Would ocean tides exist without the Moon? Does erosion occur on the Moon? The Receding Moon

Observing Lunar Rocks

BasaltAnorthosite Breccia Orange “soil” Lunar Rock Samples

Six samples of lunar material (three “soils” and three rocks) encapsulated in a six- inch diameter clear lucite disk