1. Do-Now Do-Now Copy Notes NO TALKING
Anything written in red goes in your notebook. ( We will check and go over HW tomorrow!)
Earth travels in a elliptical or football shape
This means the Earth is different distances from the sun
When the Earth is closest to the sun it is tilted away from the light giving us the winter. (Shorter days with less light)- Indirect rays of sunlight.
The two days where neither hemisphere is pointed away or towards the sun is called an equinox.
When the Earth is farthest away from the sun the Earth is tilted towards the sun giving us the summer (Longer days with more light) –direct rays of light.

2. Moon Phases Grade 6 Ms. Scillieri
FUN FACTS
Responsible for tides
Has “seas” and “mountains”
Same side of the moon always faces earth
Takes 27.5 days to orbit around the earth, but because of the Earth rotation being slow a lunar month takes 30 days
LET’S THINK
Does the Moon Make it’s Own Light?
Does the Moon have water on it’s surface?

3. How did the moon get here
Form from the big bang
Once part of Earth
Floating in space
Rogue planet
What do you think?
No the moon is not made of cheese!

4. Why we see, what we see?
Waxing – when the light of the moon “grows” on the right side
Waning – when the light of the moon “shrinks” on the left side
The lunar phases results from the position of the Earth moon, and sun
Since the moon does not make its on light the Earth reflects sun light onto the moon.
Since the moon rotates slower the Earth, the Earth and Moon rarely line up and different amounts of light are reflected on the moon, always one side of the moon is never in the sun’s path and we cannot see it from Earth when it receives light.

5. Context Clues
Crescent- when the moon is shaped like a sliver of an apple or crescent roll
Gibbous- when the moon is ¾ of the way full or lit up.
New- When the moon is receiving no reflected light from the Earth and dark
Full- When the moon is bright and lit up!
Quarter- when the moon is lit half way.

6. Motions of the Moon The moon revolves on an axis
It orbits around the Earth.
The changing relative positions of the moon, Earth, and sun cause the phases

7. Visualize

8. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

9. Waxing Crescent
Light on
the right.
Less than half lit.

10. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

11. Waning Gibbous
Light on
the left.
More than half lit.

12. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

13. New Moon No light visible
Earth, Moon, and Sun practically in a straight line

14. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

15. Waxing Gibbous
Light on
the right.
More than half lit.

16. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

17. First Quarter
Light on
The right.
Exactly
half lit.

18. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

19. Waning Crescent
Light on
the left.
Less than half lit.

20. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

21. Third (Last) Quarter
Light on right.
Less than half lit.

22. What Moon Phase Is This?
And…
How Do
You Know?

23. Full Moon
Fully
lit.

24. Can you see the “Man in the Moon?”
The Real Full Moon
Fully lit!
Can you see the “Man in the Moon?”