LPI | Learning

This workshop for high school science teachers incorporated standards-aligned classroom resources, authentic inquiry experiences, interactions with lunar scientists, and more.

  Contact the Science Engagement team with questions

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Hands-On Activities

• Impact Craters
• Water Balloon Impacts
• Planetary Differentiation
• Ice in the Shadows
• Seeing the Moon inquiry activities (spectra and the ALTAs)
• Seeing the Moon — SmartBoard resources

Lunar Scale and Rotation activities

• Facing the Moon
• Penny Moon and Quarter Earth

Lunar Phases activities

• Oreo Moon Phases
• Moon Phase Chart
• Golf Ball Moon Phases
• Paper Plate Moon Phases

Data Activities

(Using, analyzing data)

• Lunar Landforms
• Blue Marble Matches
• Geologic Mapping of the Moon
• Radar Image Analysis
• How Radar Can See
• Using Radar to Search the Darkness
• How Did the Moon Form
• Planning a Mission to the Lunar South Pole
• Investigating the Moon research question activity
• Impact Cratering Lab (described but not conducted)
• Mission Moon (described but not conducted)

Discussion-Based Activities

• Nature of Science Sorting Activity
• Teaching Science Interactive Activity

Powerpoints

• The Moon: Applications and Technical Value, a presentation by Dr. Paul Spudis
  (Note: some of these images are under copyright; please do not publish this without permission from Dr. Spudis).
  Video of Dr. Spudis' presentation at ISDC 2011
• Moon Basics: Rotation, Revolution, Orbital Characteristics
• Phases and Eclipses
• How Can Radar See
• Lunar Landforms
• Radar Image Analysis
• Using Radar to Search the Darkness
• Interactive Triads as Teaching Strategies
• What are Planets Made Of? Using Infrared Spectroscopy to Investigate the Solar System — presentation by Dr. Rachel Klima
• The Lunar Poles: An Ideal Site for Scientific Exploration — presentation by Dr. Ben Bussey
• Formation of the Moon — presentation by Dr. Joshua Cahill

Assessment resources

• Pre-Assessment Techniques
• Pre-Assessment Strategies
• How Far is the Moon
• Assessment Primer
• Types of Assessment

Inquiry and pedagogy resources

• What Is Inquiry in Science?
• What Teacher Educators Need to Know about Inquiry
• ABC Classrooms
• Overview of Learning Styles
• Moon Phases Educational Research

Lunar Disk Certification  (process for borrowing)

Additional Resources

• Moon Viewing
• Earth-Moon Resources
• Moon Phase Resources
• Spectroscopy Resources
• Misconceptions about the Moon
• Article If We Had No Moon
• 2013 Photos
• 2012 Photos of Lunar Lab
• 2011 Photos
• 2011 Christine Hunt’s Notes
  • Session 1
  • Session 2
  • Session 3
  • Session 4
• Summer Opportunities
• Quick Time Movies
  • Apollo footage—Galileo gravity demonstration
  • Apollo footage—Moon Rock
• Video of the Crater Ejecta Catapult
• Video of Ejecta Catapult Setup
• Photos of the Impact Flash
• Moon poster — What the Moon is made of and how it formed, by Dr. Rachel Klima