1. 6th Grade GPS Standards Addressed:
Solar & Lunar Eclipses Unit designed by Lisa Witherington, Pulaski County School System, 2006
6th Grade GPS Standards Addressed:
S6E2 – Students will understand the effects of the relative positions of the earth, moon, and sun.
b. Explain the alignment of the earth, moon, and sun during solar and lunar eclipses.
S6CS5 – Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.
b. Identify several different models (such as physical replicas, pictures, and analogies) that could be used to represent the same thing, and evaluate their usefulness, taking into account such things as the model’s purpose and complexity.

2. Stepwise Instructional Task Worksheet:
6th Grade Science - Solar and Lunar Eclipses

3. Wood and Styrofoam model of moon and earth on rotating wooden plate
to use as a model for solar and lunar eclipses
(Model created by Lisa & Mr. Witherington)

4. Lunar Eclipse
EARTH
SUN
MOON

5. Solar Eclipse
SUN
EARTH
MOON

6. Eclipse model downloadable for free from Canon 3-D website: