New
Orbit Observatory
Drag the Moon around Earth and set the clock until the telescope matches a film director’s sketch.
- Subject
- Science & Engineering
- Grades
- 6–8
- Time
- 14 min
- Skill
- Why the Moon has phases
Standards it covers
- MS-ESS1-1Use a Sun, Earth and Moon model to explain the Moon’s phases and eclipses.
- 5-ESS1-2Show patterns in the sky, like when the Moon is up and how its shape changes.
