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Karen's Moon Phase Light Analysis  

This outlines the plan for analyzing the illumination of the moon at different phases. Students use ImageJ to create an animation of the the moon's phases, find the percent of the surface illuminated and graph is in Excel. I would love to hear any feedback! :)

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Investigation 1 - KMC (Microsoft Word 346kB Sep18 08)

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Moon Stack (TIFF 2.1MB Sep18 08)

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Excel Data Table and Graph (Excel 20kB Sep18 08)

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Karen--I love your lesson and will use it when we discuss moon phases. Earth in Space unit but I cannot view your moon stack --It appears as random images in a slide show??
(personal note: I love teaching Science! See you in October!) Andrea

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Hello Karen,

Your lesson looks great! I guess I have had trouble posting my lesson about moon phases but I'll keep trying. My lesson involves an exploration of ImageJ with practice measuring distance and area. The website I used for moon phase images was http://www.Air_and_Space.com/Moon%20200408.htm. My lesson also uses Excel and a line graph.
See you Oct. 25th.

Marie Wisz

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Karen - I plan on doing this in the spring when I start astronomy with my 5th graders. I'd love to know how it works out for you. Obviously much of the math will not be included with my younger students.
Chris

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I like your lesson. That should help the kids answer the moon question on the grade 8 science MCAS!

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I found the website for the picture.

this is the photographer
http://www.astrosurf.com/cidadao/animations.htm

He does request that he gets permission

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