Eugene Shoemaker, a man who was declined to be an astronaut due to medical conditions, were flown into a crater on the moon on Jas his dying wish.ģ0.Ěny footprints made by astronauts on the moon are still there and will remain for millions of years because the moon has no atmosphere or wind.ģ1.Ěstronaut Alan Sheppard drove a golf ball 2,400 feet, or almost half of a mile, while on the surface of the moon.ģ2.ěack in 1988, of people who were surveyed by the Lowell Observatory of Flagstaff, Arizona, 13% believed that the moon’s surface was indeed made of cheese.ģ3. This occurs a few days prior to spring equinox.Ģ9.
This full moon occurs after the harvest moon.Ģ8.Ě Super Full Moon appears brighter and larger than a normal full moon. It takes the Moon the same amount of time to rotate on its axis that it takes to orbit around the Earth.Ģ6.Ě Harvest Moon is actually a full moon that appears during the autumnal equinox, which is around September.Ģ7.Ě Hunters Moon is sometimes called the blood moon and even sanguine moon. There are more than 300,000 craters on the moon at more than one kilometer wide, just on one side.Ģ5. The craters found on the moon’s surface are caused by asteroids and comets when they crash onto the surface of the moon.Ģ4. The Moon orbits around the Earth every 29 days.Ģ3. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon is between the Sun and Earth.Ģ2. Lunar eclipses occur when the Earth is located in between the Sun and the Moon.Ģ1. The moon has four phases, the first quarter, last quarter, the full moon, and the new moon.Ģ0. Only one side of the Moon is visible from earth at any given time.ġ9. Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon.ġ7.Ěpollo 11 was the American space mission to first reach and land on the moon.ġ8. When the Moon is directly above you and you are along the coast, you will encounter a high tide.ġ6. The Moon’s gravity affects the oceans on earth.ġ5. The Moon does not have an atmosphere there is no wind on the Moon.ġ3. If you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 16.6 pounds on the moon.ġ2. The speed in which the moon orbits the earth is at 2,300 miles an hour.ġ1. The Moon’s gravity is 1/6 that of Earth.ĩ.Ĝlosest distance between the Moon and the Sun is 91,341,565 miles (147 million km).ġ0. Actual distance varies from 221,457 to 252,712 miles.Ĩ. The Moon rotates at ten miles per hour.ħ.Ěverage distance between the Earth and the Moon is about 239,000 miles. The Moon’s total surface area is 14,658,000 sq. The Moon is a little more than one-fourth the size of Earth.Ĥ. The Moon is the fifth largest satellite in our Solar System.ģ. The Moon is Earth’s lone natural satellite.Ģ.
Emaze Presentation Project – 1.5 to 3 (50 minute) class periods.Space Exploration: First Man on the Moon Presentation Project in Emaze.Space Exploration: First Man on the Moon Word Search (with answer key).Learning about Space Exploration: First Man on the Moon WebQuest Answer Key.Learning about Space Exploration: First Man on the Moon WebQuestĪctivity (print and editable digital files included).This is also a great lesson to leave for a substitute teacher! This lesson is intended to be an introduction to the topic and was designed for middle school (grades 6-8) but could be used in upper elementary or high school as well.
Additionally, after these introductory activities, students create a presentation to showcase their knowledge on the free Web 2.0 tool, Emaze ( Optionally, these can be presented to the class. Also included with this unit is a word search puzzle with a full answer key that is great for early finishers or to supplement the lesson. The student questions are included in both a print version and a digital (editable) version to make it easy for students to complete the lesson digitally or on paper. A complete answer key is provided for the WebQuest for easy grading, along with resources for both teachers and students. In this lesson, students learn interesting facts about space exploration and the first man on the moon as they complete a WebQuest (Internet Scavenger Hunt) to answer questions about the topic.