Astronomy Moon Phases Oreo Lab NGSS MS-ESS1-1 Digital Resource Eclipse
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Students love this lab!!! It's inquiry based, student centered, rigorous and easy prep! It covers NGSS DCI-ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System. The orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, cause observable patterns.
What students do:
- I have the students bring in the Oreos and spoons/knives to class. Or you can spend about $25 on Oreos, which for my class size is 8 cookies per group, with 8 groups per class. Students model what they think the pattern of moon phases are for one month without any prior knowledge. For the NGSS Science and Engineering Practice “Developing and Using Models”, it’s important that you don’t scaffold or front-load the information. You want them to use their prior knowledge when creating their first model. Students then arrange 8 cookies, each one’s frosting being scraped to represent all 8 phases (New Moon, Waxing Crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, Waning Crescent).
- After students attempt to correctly arrange their cookies I assign a Google Slideshow with information, a video with guided notes and questions that will help them rearrange their cookies correctly.
- Once their arrangement accurately shows every phase, students then revise their model by drawing what their cookies look like. Revising models is the great metacognitive aspect of modeling in NGSS. They also need to label each phase using the book, however Google Images has countless moon phase diagrams if you don’t have a book. There are eight questions the students then answer.
You get the following:
-Student hard copy of the lab
-Google Slideshow student copy with teacher notes for pacing and classroom management.
-Detailed teacher notes
-Answer keys
The following concepts are included:
-Process that causes the moon to appear as different phases
-Lunar Eclipse
-New Moon, Waxing Crescent, 1st Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd Quarter, Waning Crescent
-The moon and gravity
-The moon’s atmosphere
-The length of one lunar cycle
NGSS Standards:
ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System
The orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, cause observable patterns. These include day and night and different positions of the earth, sun and moon, at different times of the day, month, and year. (5-ESS1-2)
Cross Cutting Concepts-Patterns
Similarities and differences in patterns can be used to sort, classify, communicate and analyze simple rates of change for natural phenomena. (5-ESS1-2)
Science & Engineering Practices 2: Developing and Using Models
Modeling can begin in the earliest grades, with students' models progressing from concrete "pictures" and/or physical scale models (e.g., a toy car) to more abstract representations of relevant relationships in later grades, such as a diagram representing forces on a particular object in a system.
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