Micro Lesson #2 - Planning Instruction

My goal for this lesson is to help students understand the relationship between the earth, sun, and moon and how that affects the way the moon appears to us on earth.  Students will practice by having a light source that represents the sun, a styrofoam ball to represent the moon, and their own head to represent the earth.

The science standards for 5^th grade include describing how the moon’s appearance changes during a four-week lunar cycle, and describing how the earth’s rotation results in day and night at any particular location.  This lesson aligns really well with these standards as well as integrating technology, social studies and language arts.