K-6 Activities - Dudley Observatory
K-6 Activities - Dudley Observatory
K-6 Activities - Dudley Observatory
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Materials<br />
• 30 4” x 5” pieces of tagboard<br />
• lunar images (see next 5 pages)<br />
• 2 looseleaf rings or pieces of yarn to<br />
bind the booklet<br />
• glue sticks<br />
• hole punch<br />
This abbreviated version of the<br />
Constructing a Moon Calendar<br />
activity is printed with<br />
permission from Science Kit &<br />
Boreal Laboratories. The complete<br />
laboratory kit, catalog<br />
#46590-00, is available for<br />
sale from:<br />
Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories<br />
777 East Park Drive<br />
Tonawanda, NY 14150-6784<br />
Phone: 800-828-7777<br />
Grade Level<br />
K–6 <strong>Activities</strong> • B–14 •<br />
Constructing a Moon Calendar<br />
Elementary through middle school.<br />
Procedure<br />
The following activity can be done as a class activity with each student making one<br />
page or each student making an entire calendar. The images are a photo-realistic<br />
simulation of the moon as it might be seen through a small telescope or binoculars.<br />
Each image has a number for the age of that moon in days.<br />
1. Cut out the moon images from the attached pages along the dotted lines.<br />
2. Paste each moon image to a separate piece of 4 x 5 inch tag board.<br />
3. Punch two holes at the top of each tag board page.<br />
4. Assemble all 30 tag board pages in numerical order and bind them together<br />
with the looseleaf rings or yarn. This is now the Moon Calendar.<br />
Note<br />
Because the moon goes around the earth in 291/2 days and there are 30<br />
moon phases, this Moon Phase Calendar needs to be reset to the actual new<br />
moon or full moon about every six to eight weeks.<br />
Contributed by Stephen Berr.
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