Making the different phases of the moon - wrapping cardstock cutouts in foil. We were originally going to glue little bits of foil on to the cutouts but it seems that foil does not like to stick to paper.
The end result: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, second quarter and waning crescent.
Our phases of the moon hanging up.
Tonight we used the telescope, borrowed from the Launceston Planetarium, to have a look at the moon. (It's handy having an astronomer friend!)
And this is what we were looking at (I had to flip the image as it was reflected upside down in the telescope). Pretty cool, huh?! Shmoo correctly identified it as a waxing gibbous moon ("do, do, do the waxing gibbous. The waxing gibbous!"... as in The Funky Gibbon? Surely my kids aren't the only ones who are obsessed with The Goodies?!).
I'm jealous of that telescope!
ReplyDeleteWow, what a great experience! That telescope is amazing! I need an astronomer friend!
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