This week I decided to go back and do some review activities in Science with my 7th graders. We had finished up a unit not long ago on the moon and space. Even after the test, some of my students were still confused on rotation versus revolution, the moon phases, how the moon interacts with the tides, and the different eclipses.
We began by watching Flocabulary's Confessions of a Planet. They were equally intrigued and mock horrified with the video. It was a good way to begin the discussion, though.
I first had us complete some foldables from this Space Interactive Notebook file I had bought last year. We compared and contrasted revolution and rotation. Then, we labeled the different moon phases and put them in the correct order.
We used these two websites to help us look up the moon phases and review:
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases.phtml
http://www.astronomyknowhow.com/moon-phase.htm
Today we did the activity where you make the moon phases out of Oreos. Edible labs are always better! I know this is an activity often done with younger students, but I found this great set of lab directions as a freebie from Addie Williams.
It has a great set of procedures and really good questions for them to answer at the end. It took the activity from just being an activity to truly being more of a lab.
Overall, it was a good week in Science and we got to have some fun reviewing and reteaching. How is your week going?
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