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Explore solar and lunar eclipses with models, games, and classroom investigations. Choose activities that show how the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up.
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A cut-and-glue craft activity that has students build a simple sun-moon-earth model to represent a solar eclipse, then reflect in writing on a solar eclipse they have personally seen.
Includes: Sun, Moon and Earth cutouts · Split-pin model · Reflection and safety activities
A 90-minute Grade 3-5 science lesson plan teaching what a solar eclipse is and its types via video, demonstration, and a hands-on model activity.
Includes: Flashlight-and-ball model activity · Vocabulary worksheet · Review game
Teach students about the phases/mechanics of a solar eclipse through hands-on craft activities.
Includes: Three solar-eclipse crafts · Cut-and-paste and sequencing activities
Card games (Wildcard-style matching game and Snap) that drill vocabulary and concepts about light, shadows, and lunar/solar eclipses for middle school.
Includes: Eclipse, light and shadow question cards · Snap and wildcard game formats
Build vocabulary and literacy skills around eclipses and moon phases (space phenomena) through a set of independent print worksheets (vocabulary study, sentence/story writing, word games, research, and creative response tasks).
Includes: Eclipse and Moon-phase literacy activities · Bingo, writing and research tasks
An interactive digital micro-learning slide deck that teaches what a solar eclipse is through an informational reading passage, vocabulary, close reading, and a summary writing activity.
Includes: Solar-eclipse reading passage · Vocabulary and matching · Summary activity
A memory-matching card game reviewing shadows and lunar/solar eclipses.
Includes: Light, shadow and eclipse matching game
Multi-station hands-on lab activity teaching solar and lunar eclipses.
Includes: Eclipse lab stations · Modeling, research, video and review activities
A digital slideshow ('micro-learning deck') teaching what a lunar eclipse is, how it forms, and related facts, combining a video lesson, an audio-supported reading passage, vocabulary, and comprehension activities.
Includes: Lunar-eclipse reading lesson · Vocabulary and comprehension activities
Multi-station hands-on lab activity teaching solar and lunar eclipses.
Includes: Eclipse lab-station activities · Research, modeling and review tasks
Teaches how shadows form (umbra/penumbra) and how lunar and solar eclipses (total, partial, penumbral, annular) occur, as a self-directed distance-learning middle-school physics pack.
Includes: Light and eclipse lesson slides · Worksheets · Foldable materials
Two cut-and-assemble interactive foldable booklets (lapbook-style) for students to record what they learn about solar eclipses generally and about eclipses in ancient civilizations.
Includes: Solar-eclipse foldable booklets · Research and fact-recording activities
A fully resourced middle-school lesson bundle teaching shadows and lunar/solar eclipses, combining a main presentation with a large set of printable activities.
Includes: Light, shadow and eclipse lesson resources · Student practice
A physical-education game combining throwing/target-shooting and dodging/fleeing skill practice with a solar-eclipse theme.
Includes: Team target game · Eclipse progress chart
A three-day senior Earth and Space Science lesson on the Moon's origin (Collision-Condensation theory), orbital mechanics, phases, eclipses, and tidal influence, delivered via slide presentation with guided student notes.
Includes: Moon lesson · Guided notes on solar and lunar eclipses · Research activity
A 28-page photocopiable hands-on science activity book (Ready-Ed Publications, RED4029) covering the 'Earth and Beyond' topic for 8-10 year olds, with 8 lessons pairing teacher notes with student activity sheets, focused on the sun, moon, weather, and the wider physical world.
Includes: Earth and space investigations, including eclipses
A picture-book companion resource for Gail Gibbons's 'The Moon Book,' providing 21 print-and-go activities to build listening, note-taking, vocabulary, comparison, and informational-text skills while reading the book aloud.
Includes: Book-companion notebook activities · Solar/lunar eclipse comparison · Book required separately