Moon Catcher Your simulated ride to the moon

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Moon Catcher! Your simulated ride to the moon!

• By Gabriel Bradley
• Stefanie Cassidy
• Cari Evers
• Joanna Freibaum

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Moon-Catchin Net Ive made me a moon-catchin
net, And Im goin huntin tonight, Ill run
along swingin it over my head, And grab for
that big ball of light. So tomorrow just look at
the sky, And if theres no moon you can bet Ive
found what I sought and I finally caught The moon
in my moon-catchin net. But if the moons still
shinin there, Look close underneath and youll
get A clear look at me in the sky swingin
free With a star in my moon-catchin net. -From
Shel Silversteins A Light in the Attic
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LIFT OFF!!
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Before we get to the moon, I wonder

• What is the temperature like?
• Are there wind and season changes like on Earth?
• How far will I have to travel to get there? Im
  SCARED its too far!!
• How many of my friends can come with?
• Do I know anyone who has been to the moon before?
• Will I float away on the moon because I heard
  theres NO GRAVITY!

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A Trip to the Moon Essentials

• In our unit plan we would like to focus on what
  it would be like if we were to REALLY take a trip
  to the moon and maybe someday, if we wanted to
  live there. What things would we need to know?
  What things would we find out when we got there?
  What is life LIKE on the moon???
• Our lesson will focus on four main areas
• History/Social Studies
• Science
• Math
• Language Arts

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Questions we hope to explore

• Why do I see a mans face when I look at the moon
  from my house? What are some other myths about
  the moon that I should know? (Language Arts)
• What famous people have made trips to the moon
  that I would know? (Social Science)
• Is the habitat of the moon a lot like it is here
  on Earth? (Science)
• If I wanted to measure the distance to the moon
  and calculate all of my expenses needed to live
  there, would I run out of money? (Mathematics)

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but first, did you know?

• The Moon was first visited by the Soviet
  spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959. 
• It is considered a terrestrial planet along with
  Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. 
• It is the second brightest object in the sky
  behind the Sun.
• The Moon is called Luna by the Romans.

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Is that the BOGEY MAN? AAAAAAAHHHHH!
http//home.hiwaay.net/krcool/Astro/moon/mim.htm
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Standards that our Moon Unit will cover and meet!

• Since we will be gearing our lesson to second
  gradersWHAT? SECOND GRADERS! We will cover
  four of the seven ISBE standards within our
  lesson. Aspects of the other standards (i.e.
  Fine Arts, Foreign Language and Physical Health)
  will be integrated later on into the unit to
  ensure an in-depth and educationally enriched
  experience! Now, lets climb aboard the
  Standards Train to Moon Unit SUCCESS!

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Here comes the Standards Train! Whoo-whoo!

• Language Arts Standards
• State Goal 1 Reading
• A. Apply word analysis and vocabulary skills to
  comprehend selections.
• 1.A.1b Comprehend unfamiliar words using context
  clues and prior knowledge verify meanings with
  resource materials.
• C. Comprehend a broad range of reading materials.
• 1.C.1a Use information to form questions and
  verify predictions.
• 1.C.1b Identify important themes and topics.
• State Goal 5 Research
• A. Locate, organize, and use information from
  various sources to answer questions, solve
  problems and communicate ideas.
• 5.A.1a Identify questions and gather information.
  5.A.1b Locate information using a variety of
  resources.

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So, what is the moon really made of?
Rocks??
Cheese??
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Here is what the moon is REALLY made of

• The moon is really a BIG rock filled with
  craters, valleys and flatlands
• The dark spots that you see that may resemble a
  face are actually flat areas of dark rock
• The large and very wide dark areas of the moon
  are actually called maria, which means seas
  these were originally thought to be filled with
  liquid, but later on, we found out they were seas
  of dark rocks scattered across the moons
  surface!
• The moon is made up of many of the minerals that
  we need and use here on Earth!

http//letrc.lpb.org/MoonMania/facts.htm
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Integrating Language Arts on our Moon Trip

• Throughout the lesson, we will incorporate a vast
  amount of opportunities for students to use their
  creativity and the Internet to explore the moon.
• Lesson Ideas
• A creative writing session/journal entry about
  their ideal trip to the moon.
• Research the Internet for the first words spoken
  on the moon.
• If you could travel to the moon, expense free,
  NASA is paying for it, who would you bring and
  why?
• Research the Internet for songs that contain the
  word moon within the lyrics. Play them for the
  class through the Internet!
• How many different books or movies can you think
  about that have the moon or missions to the
  moon as the storyline? Look for clips on the
  Internet!

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Whats in the news? The DI helps us learn how to
create a moon journal!
Lego robots battle for Mars By Whitney Trumble
Staff writer Five teams, ranging in age from
fourth grade to high school, participated in this
year's challenge, "Mission to Mars," which
required the students to develop robots to
perform certain tasks that they might have to do
on Mars, such as launching boulders.
-December 8, 2003
www.dailyillini.com
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Myth Busters!

• A Norse legend tells of a man who named his
  children Sun and Moon. This angered the Gods and
  they took the children up to the heavens where
  the girl became the Sun's Coachman and the boy
  was made to guide the moon's waxing and waning.
  In time the boy carried off two more children,
  Bil and Hjuki who had been carrying water from a
  well. It is said that to this day the children
  can be seen on the Moon's Face... hence the rhyme
  Jack and Jill went up the hillto fetch a
  pail of water.Jack fell down and broke his
  crownand Jill came tumbling after.
•   There is significance in the 'pail of water'.
  Old legends tell of the ability of the reflection
  of the moon to steal the soul. There are also
  many references in legend suggesting that the
  'stolen soul' is what we see in the face of the
  moon. The 'Man in the Moon' face and the 'watery'
  nature of the moon has found it's way into most
  of the moon myths

http//www.nectw.org/myths.html
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What about ALIENS?!?

• Are there really aliens on the moon?
• More and more people are coming forward with
  stories of an Alien presence on the Moon. Rumors
  say that there is an Alien Moon Base on the far
  side of the moon, the side we never see from
  Earth. Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings
  stopped and why we have not tried to build a Moon
  Base? It does seem like a better and easier idea
  than a floating space station with no access to
  any raw materials or supplies?....

http//www.hostileinvader.com/Alienindex.html
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more Standards!

• Social Science Standards
• State Goal 17 Geography
• A. Locate, describe and explain places, regions
  and features on the Earth.
• 17.A.1a Identify physical characteristics of
  places, both local and global (e.g., locations,
  roads, regions, bodies of water).
• 17.A.1b Identify the characteristics and purposes
  of geographic representations including maps,
  globes, graphs, photographs, software, digital
  images and be able to locate specific places
  using each.

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Do you remember the FIRST visit to the moon??
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Integrating a bit of history!

• In this lesson we want to ensure that each
  student not only thinks and explores the moon and
  its parts but also the history of people, places
  and things that have all had impact on our little
  night-light.
• Lesson Ideas
• Research famous people and/or astronauts that
  have been to the moon and when they went.
• Research the Internet for all of the countries
  that have been to the moon and back!
• Act out/re-create the first space mission.
• Have students make a skit and/or puppet show and
  dress up as astronauts of Apollo 11.
• Take Polaroid pictures of each student stepping
  on their created moon and publish on the class
  webpage.

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Did you know??

• There are such things as Moon trees
• More than 400 trees on Earth came from the Moon.
  Well, okay They came from lunar orbit. Okay, the
  truth In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa
  took a bunch of seeds with him and, while Alan
  Shepard and Edgar Mitchell were busy sauntering
  around on the surface, Roosa guarded his seeds.
• Later, the seeds were germinated on Earth,
  planted at various sites around the country, and
  came to be called the Moon trees. Most of them
  are doing just fine.

http//www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_cool_
moon_facts-8.html
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and still more!

• Science Standards
• State Goal 12 Concepts and Principles
• F. Know and apply concepts that explain the
  composition and structure of the universe and
  Earth's place in it.
• 12.F.1a Identify and describe characteristics of
  the sun, Earth and moon as familiar objects in
  the solar system.
• 12.F.1b Identify daily, seasonal and annual
  patterns related to the Earth's rotation and
  revolution

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HERE WE GOOOOO!!!!OH my gosh I can see
the Earth from here! Were so HIGH up in the
sky what is that layer called again? THE
ATMOSPHERE!
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MOON OR BUST!
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Hi there Kids! Hows Earth?
Space Travel is so much fun! I wish you all
could come with mehey, wait a secondyou can!
Come on!
This is really high up! Whoa!!
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What makes up the MOON?

• The top layer is made up of solid rock and is
  about 1,500 miles thick!
• Next comes the mantle
• Leftover molten lava makes up the next layer
  underneath of the mantle and then
• An IRON CORE??? Geologists (moon scientists) are
  still trying to figure that outmaybe well beat
  them to it!

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What was it like on the moon? Is it the same
today?

• Main moon facts EVERYONE is curious about and
  that EVERYONE should know before space travel to
  the MOON!
• There are light and dark areas of the moon
• The light areas are called terrae which are the
  oldest parts of the moon. Terrae, which means
  land covers the whole moon and makes visible
  all of the scars and craters from other space
  objects that have hit or collided with the moon.
• The dark areas are called maria which means
  seas. These areas are called maria because
  long before any astronaut set foot on the moon
  and before we knew as much as we know today, many
  scientists believed that these seas contained
  real liquid. Later on we discovered that it is
  actually solidified (or hard) lava!

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Moving through the phases!
Galileos interpretation of the moons
phases What do YOU see when you look at the
moon? Is it the same as what Galileo saw years
and years ago??
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The moon is a punching bag??

• A little factoid
• The Moon's heavily cratered surface is the result
  of space rocks crashing into the surface between
  4.1 billion and 3.8 billion years ago.
• These scars have not eroded, or gone away, for
  two main reasons The Moon is not geologically
  very active, so earthquakes, volcanoes and
  mountain-building don't destroy the landscape as
  they do on Earth and with no wind or rain, so
  very little changes occur!

http//www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_cool_
moon_facts-7.html
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How does an EGG relate to the moon?

• Simple! The moon is a giant egghead!
• The Moon is not round (or spherical). Instead,
  it's shaped like an egg. If you go outside and
  look up, one of the small ends is pointing right
  at you. And the Moon's center of mass is not at
  the geometric center of the satellite it's about
  1.2 miles (2 kilometers) off-center.

http//www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_cool_
moon_facts-5.html
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and more Moon Mania!

• Some of the craters on the moon are MILES deep!
  One of the largest craters called Crater Tycho
  has a depth of more than 2 miles and spans 53
  miles of the moons surface in depth!
• WOW!! Thats pretty big! Thats about the
  length about 900 football fields!

A crater in Arizona that is 1.2km wide!
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Now were getting SCIENTIFIC!

• Of all of the standards, science about the moon
  may be something that the students are quite
  unfamiliar with. Though concepts like lunar
  maria and atmospheric temperatures may allude
  them, we hope to make a trip to the moon more
  scientifically meaningful to the students.
• Lesson Ideas
• Create a diorama of what the students think the
  moons terrain, or terrae is like.
• Students can use elements like sand, water, etc.
  Encourage research on the Internet and a lot of
  hands-on activities with moon-like materials.
• Plan for a visit to, or a virtual visit to, the
  Museum of Science and Industry to explore the
  conditions and terrain of our moon as well as
  other interesting exhibits.
• Have students design their own space suit that
  would be suitable for moon-like conditions and
  travel!

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How much do you know about the OTHER moons in our
Solar System??
http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/moon/moon_i
l.html

• Moon Jigsaw Puzzle!

Moon Crossword Puzzle!
Other games include Alien Invaders and Asteroid
Attack as well as other informational and
educational quizzes about the Solar System,
constellations and even ALIEN LIFE!
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How does the ocean relate to our moon?

• Were so glad you asked!
• Tides on Earth are caused mostly by the Moon (the
  Sun has a smaller effect). Here's how it works
• The Moon's gravity pulls on Earth's oceans. High
  tide aligns with the Moon as Earth spins
  underneath. Another high tide occurs on the
  opposite side of the planet because gravity pulls
  Earth toward the Moon more than it pulls the
  water.

http//www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top_10_cool_
moon_facts-2.html
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last, but not least!

• Mathematics Standards
• Standard 7 Estimation and Measurement
• B. Estimate measurements and determine acceptable
  levels of accuracy.
• 7.B.1a Given a problem, describe possible methods
  for estimating a given measure.
• 7.B.1b Compare estimated measures to actual
  measures taken with appropriate measuring
  instruments.

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Looking back at Earth, its so FAR awaybut how
far away exactly?
Lets convert from the metric system to English
standard!
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Mathematics Incorporated!

• We cannot forget to have students begin to think
  mathematically and proportionally about space
  travel to the moon.
• Lesson Ideas
• Have students plan a journey to the moon.
• How many pounds of food would they need to last a
  month, a year, etc.
• Have students create a super-watch to keep
  track of Earth and moon time simultaneously.
• Research the Internet for the actual distance to
  travel to the moon.
• Have students determine or estimate how many
  candy-bars it would take to reach the moon from
  their classroom, etc.

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Resources for Teachers!

• Exploring more about the sun, moon and Earth!
• Moon facts
• Moon myths
• Top ten moon facts
• Pictures/images of the moon
• Quizzes on the moon
• Lesson plans on the moon
• Moon mania!
• NASA

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Thank you for taking this journey with us!

• You are all now certified MOON CATCHERS! Keep
  your moon-catching net in-tow as we will need it
  to explore our universe in the next few weeks!
• CONGRATULATIONS MOON ADVENTURERS!