We started out with this book. It is the spine for Sport's current Noeo science unit. We read about the moon in here...
then read this book I picked up at the library to explain things a bit more on Spice's level.
The highlight of our day was recreating the phases of the moon using Oreo cookies. I based the project off of the info found here. We only focused on the 4 main moon phases though to keep things simple and lessen the sugar intake. The kids had a blast, especially after the sugar started to take effect.
Sport's complete project.
Spice works on her phases.
God created the moon and it was good!
Looks like Sport had a good time.
We wrapped things up with an activity from Pop Bottle Science.
My sister-in-law gave this to Sport for his birthday a few years ago. Bet she didn't think we still had it! This activity focused on the craters on the moon. For some reason Spice has been fascinated by the idea of craters on the moon. We filled the bottom part of the bottle (it comes apart) with flour then dropped small objects (raisin, chocolate chip, marble, candy corn...) into the flour to show how craters were formed. Some objects were dropped gently just an inch or so away and others were dropped from way up high (do this outside if you don't want flour everywhere) to show how different sizes of craters were made. We all agreed these activities made for a fun day of workboxes.
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