The Phases of the Moon – OREO EDITION!

Our final lesson on space focused on the phases of the moon. We discussed what the moon looks like and how sometimes it can look different; it isn’t always a spherical shape. More importantly we delved deeper to find out why…

It turns out that we can only see the moon thanks to the biggest light source of them all – the sun!

We looked at the names of the various moon phases and the children were required to draw a diagram detailing what the moon looks like at each stage. They then conducted some research to find out a little more about each phase.

The children then had an INCREDIBLE time creating the moon phases using OREOS! It was great seeing children working together, delicately picking apart the biscuits in order to accurately show the eight phases of the moon.

If only every science lesson involved Oreos…

Tom