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Hi Teachers! The Fall 2010 MOON Project is underway! September 10 is the ideal day for you and your students to start observing the Moon. You can register your students for the MOON Project two different ways. You can have your students take the pre-test, CMPA-R, at http://worldmoonproject.org/assessment/moon_pretest.php by October 8 at the latest, which automatically registers your students. The second option is to e-mail a list of students to me at
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. If you choose to send an e-mail rather than have students take the CMPA-R, please include the students' first name, first letter of last name, gender, and class period. The CMPA-R is the easiest way for your students to register for the MOON Project. Ideally, your students should complete the CMPA-R as a pre-test before any class time has been devoted to instruction about the Moon. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at
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. I look forward to working with you and your students. Here's to a great semester! Best, Allie Griest
Graduate Research Assistant
College of Education, Texas Tech University
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The MOON Project proceeds in two phases. The first phase (Six weeks): For six weeks students in grades 4-8 observe the Moon each day, record their observations and discuss their findings in class in order to learn, through personal inquiry, patterns in the Moon's behavior in their own community. The second phase (Nine weeks): The second phase is organized into three three-week parts. In each three-week part, the teacher sets aside one day for her/his students in grades 4-8 to write an essay to share globally with other students.
First, students write and post an essay about their lunar observations on three specific dates selected by the MOON Project staff for when the Moon is a waxing cresent, first quarter and waxing gibbous.
As a teacher, you have a three window during which time you can have your students one day write and post this essay about their observations.
At the end of three weeks these essays are grouped by the MOON Project staff into sets of ten essays from students spread around the world, and the ten essays are sent to each student who wrote an essay in the set. If there are, say, 25 students in a class, each of the 25 will receive a different set of ten essays; so within the class there will be observations from 250 different students.
Second, students organize worldwide observations from the ten essays they received and look for global patterns in the Moon's behavior. Sometime during a three week period students share essays about global lunar patterns they've found; and in return at the end of the three weeks each student receives ten essays about global patterns.
Third, they write and post an essay to explain the cause of one of the lunar patterns revealed by this process. And as they did with the first two essays, at the end of three weeks they receive ten essays about causes of globally-observed patterns. |
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The Teacher Handbook is a comprehensive resource for teachers who wish to have their students participate in the MOON Project. This handbook will guide new teachers step-by-step from Day 1 to completion of the project. Please download the attached "Teacher Handbook."
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