Week 6

What are your best understandings about?

1. how the phases of the moon occur?

How close the moon is in correlation to the earth. reflection of the suns light 

2. What causes the seasons

The rotation of the earth. Tilt of the earth

3. what causes a lunar eclipse?

When the sun and the moon overlap. Shadow of the earth 

Activities in class:

We modeled with a globe and a ball and a lamp trying to explain the answers from above

Notes from class:

The sun is the center and we go around 

Helio=Sun

closest to the sun- January 

Farthest from the earth- June

Pluto is not on the same eliptic plane 

equinox sun is directly above the equator

The moon rotation is in sync of the rotation of earth

Blue moon- 2 full moons in 1 month