Blast off to the MOON

I wanted to do a compilation including the best of the best engaging activities about THE MOON!

 I feel like it's an area that is revisited over and over again and students have high interest in it. BUT keeping them engaged can be so tricky!

.....So here are a few of my favorite {elementary} resources for learning all about the moon.

OREO MOON PHASE MATCH

Isn't it funny how food makes everything more engaging at school? Well, bust out the oreos and do a moon phase match. I've seen a lot of Oreo activities and found one that I loved from letstotschool (all the heart eyes). BUT then I made a few tweaks and made my own (shown above) for some kiddos with food allergies. If you are in need of that just shoot me an email and I'm happy to help you out!

What I love most is that it is already done for me. Hop on over to letstotschool.com (or click the link) to grab your ready-to-go moon phase match!

MR. PARR'S SCIENCE CHANNEL

Do you love parodies? I do! And your students will EAT THESE up. No joke. Mr. Parr creates science songs to well known songs that your students won't be able to resist. The Moon Phase song is to CeeLo's "Forget You" (insert JustDance moves here). 

What I SUPER love about these is if you click on the "show more" the typed up lyrics are there. I print them up on the back of my students science notes so we can revisit the song over and over--and they know all of the words.

Before I found Mr. Parr I used this song and my students each year LOVE LOVE LOVE it as well. You can watch it for free on youtube but I purchased it on iTunes so we could listen to it anywhere! Just choose which one you want to hear over and over again! 

GOOGLE MOON Tours

This takes some downloading of GoogleEarth but your students will love this.

They take a tour of the moon with astronauts {virtually, of course}. It's pretty quick and your kids will love to be able to take a closer look at earth's satellite.

Google has a great video to get you started here. We always do the Buzz Aldrin tour :) Here's a student sample.

At the end of this post, I've included a pdf of the questions that my students answer. PLUS I had them take notes on the back about cool things they found to present to the class afterward.

MOON BANDS.

Y'all I am so excited about these!!! Simply print these out, but and have students tape or staple them around their wrists and learn about the moon phases all day. It's such an easy way to study and they are rather cool. These baby's are ready to print-cut-go so your students will be moon experts in no time!

 They are included in my new moon bundle that is literally JAM PACKED with everything to make your students a moon expert in no time! From a moon crown, matching cards, posters, phases of the moon fill-in's and more! Check it out y'all!

And here's your quick and easy download for a GOOGLE MOON tour! Your kiddos will LOVE it!

What do you love most about teaching moon phases? Let me know in the comments!

Over and out!

BANNNNNND it UP!

Is it crunch time for y'all right now?! I'm totally feeling it as well! I just wanted to pop in and share one of my go-to and hands down absolute favorite Area and Perimeter tools!

I'm a huge task mat person but I love my math bands JUST as much! All you need to do is to print the bands, cut them, and have students wear them around their wrists...and voila! An easy and quick reference sheet that they DON't have to shuffle through!

I noticed some of my math strugglers had a hard time going through papers and correctly implementing formulas and juggling all the awesome mathness going on--BUT when solving for area of triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, rectangles, and squares, they THRIVED and LOVE wearing these math bands. Your whole class will love these!

I love using these for review and also when teaching area and perimeter---you'll find them so handy!

You can find them in my store here!


Over and OUT!