The Moon Project

This is a four (or ideally 8) week project where students make their own observations for the Moon to understand the lunar phases. Student swill learn how to record, share and analyse data, as well as the general principles of the scientific method. Other activities during the project include making craters and using craters to date the lunar surface.

The Moon's current phase:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/idltemp/current_moon.php

Lunar rise and set times: (for today or any particular day)
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/rs-one-day-world

Note that:

• the latitude & longitude of Melbourne is: Latitude: 37° 49' S, Longitude: 144° 58' E
• Melbourne is on Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), which is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) + 10 hours.

Other web resources:

• Lunar calendar
• Moon rise & set times
• Phases of the Moon
• The full moon
• Apollo missions to the Moon
• SkyNotes (what's in the sky this month)
• Google Moon
• Moon Zoo - help astronomers study the lunar surface as seen by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
• MyMoon (Lunar & Planetary Institute website)
• ASP Moon resourece guide

Gravity and motion

• Your weight on other worlds
• Newton's laws of motion
• Newton's laws (animations)
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion

Other astro websites

• The Nine Planets
• NASA photojournal
• Welcome to the planets
• Build a solar system

Activities

• Craters

Other links...

• Mrs Parrington Loves Science
• Scientists in Schools

Scientists in Schools program deveoped by A/Prof Sarah Maddison (Swinburne).
Program run with: Hartwell PS, Footscray PS, St Joseph's PS

Last Updated: Thursday, 07-Mar-2013 13:27:43 AEDT