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Gain access to the NASA database on the Internet (to do this you must type in http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Space followed by RETURN. When it appears on the screen, CLICK on NASA) to find images of the near and far sides of the Moon, fact sheets of information on the Moon and descriptions of space probes and lunar surveys.
Information on the planets and other moons in our Solar System is available on http://www.ex.ac.uk/public_html/nineplanets/nineplanets.html or the majority of the information is available through a link in http://www.telescope.org/nuffield.
Nasa information is available from http://guinan.gsfc.nasa.gov/K12 which contains information on the "Star Child" project, integrating NASA with schools, or information on the Apollo Space Programme is available from: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo.html
Pupils could find information and work on the following projects:-
a. The far side of the Moon
b. Use the Robotic Telescope to obtain
an image of the Moon at first or
last quarters; from the shadows
try to calculate the height of the crater rims
c. Is our Moon the same as Saturn's
and Jupiter's moons
d. The Moon and tides
e. The Apollo space programme
f. What made the craters on the Moon
The projects could be presented in a variety of ways e.g.
1. An article for a scientific paper
2. An article for a newspaper
3. A Poster
4. Sketches or paintings of a scene
on the Moon
5. A Model
Pupil Activity - Telescope Image Request
When submitting a job to the Robotic Telescope, give the name of the job as MOON
The image will include details from the part of the Moon in shadow. Pupils could request two images a few days apart and use the movement of the terminator shadow to calculate the length of the Lunar Day (= one lunar month on Earth). Pupils could also use an image of the Moon to research the depth and nature of craters.
