(#40) EARTH, MOON AND SUN
This book explores our heavenly neighbors in a most remarkable way. Your students will construct floating-pin compasses and paper-clip quadrants, then use them to track the sun and moon across a graph-paper sky. They'll cover a beat-up tennis ball in a beautiful Earth wrapper complete with continents, oceans, and lines of demarcation. They'll mount this earth on a pop-bottle pedestal, properly tilted toward a tennis-ball sun. Add a Ping-Pong ball moon, half wrapped in black tape to model its phases, and this TOPS learning system is complete: night follows day; the moon waxes and wanes through its monthly cycle; season follows season; year follows year.
(#40) THE EARTH, MOON, AND SUN is part of our Self-Directing Activity Page Series. It is an 72 page soft-bound book organized into three main parts:
INTRODUCTION
* A TOPS Teaching Model * Getting Ready * Gathering Materials *
Sequencing Activities * Long Range Objectives * Review/Test Questions
TEACHING NOTES (20 lessons)
* Azimuth * Altitude * Lunar Coordinates * Solar Survey * Shadow Track *
Off the Wall * Bird's Eye View * Great Ball O' Fire * Paper Punch Moon *
Pinhole Projections * Paper Plate Sun * Eclipse * Moon Phases * Where You
Live * Solar Exposure * Earth Dance * The Ecliptic Plane * Solar Time /
Star Time * Moon Motion * Lunar Calendar
REPRODUCIBLE LINE MASTERS
* 20 Student Activity Sheets * compass circle * angles of altitude *
quadrant * circle graphs * sundial circle * ecliptic ring * sun circles *
earth circles * moon phase tabs * globe gores * concept list * lunar
cycles * seasons circle * moon marker
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(#40) THE EARTH, MOON AND SUN requires no special lab equipment or unusual supplies. Just photocopy the 20 activity sheets, gather simple materials (like paper plates, bottles, tennis balls and cans), and you're ready to explore TOPS Learning Systems hands-on.
GRADE RANGE: 7-12
ORIGINS: written by Ron Marson / illustrated by Peg Marson / copyrighted
in 1993
by TOPS Learning Systems / ISBN 0-941008-40-1
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#40 The Earth, Moon, and Sun @ $15.00
