Science Challenge

For my scienece activity I will be using the program stellarium to study the different phases of the moon. This fits into UEN 6th grade science, standard 1, objective 1b. This aobjective has students identify the patterns of change in the moon's appearance. I will give a lesson to my students about the phases of the moon. I will then introduce the program stellarium. I will assign homework for each student to use stellarium to record the different phases of the moon. I will be using the program stellarium because it will give them a good visual of how the moon actually looks. If I were to give them an assignment to go observe the actual moon, it would be hard because it is so far away and it might be covered. Stellarium will allow student to go to whichever dates they choose and get a clearer picture of the moon.