MERLOT Materials

Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the only astronomical body other than Earth ever visited by human beings. The... see more

Thumbnails of moon...lots of them.

ePortfolio

Learners model the Sun-Earth-Moon system to show what causes the Moon's appearance to change when viewed from the Earth.... see more

A short movie of the Moon moving through the Earth’s shadow, and how it appears from Earth. This requires Flash player.

Virtual moon with landing sites

This fun and simple hands-on astronomy activity lets learners make 3-dimensional models of the Earth and Moon. Using the... see more

Really cool animated page showing the movement of the moon around the earth from various angles.

Really cool animated page showing the movement of the moon around the earth from various angles.

This web application, developed mainly for elementary school students, shows the phases of the Moon for each day of a... see more

Shows the phase of the moon.

This site contains a series of visualizations of the sun, moon and Earth System and how they relate to the changing face... see more

This is an excellent website for teens. Its purpose is to show and explain the phases of the moon. It gives you all the... see more

This is a site that shows us how to make many beverages. It explains in detailed directions on how to make anything from... see more

This is a 15-day unit of inquiry-based lessons about the surface features of the Moon and the Earth and how these two... see more

In this activity, learners model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons. By measuring the diameter of the crater... see more

The Moon is probably not humankind's final frontier. However, more than 30 years after the completion of the last lunar... see more

The Moon, Earth's only natural satellite and one of the brightest objects in its sky, appears in the sky in many... see more

Galileo used thought experiments to test many assumptions, including the notion that heavy objects fall more quickly than... see more

This is a collection of mathematics problems relating to the moons of the solar system. Learners will use simple... see more

In this activity, students compute the strengths of the gravitational forces exerted on the Moon by the Sun and by the... see more

This activity, created by Beth Hufnagel and Bob Stein of Michigan State University, is useful for teachers who are... see more

Shows the phase of the moon

This is an activity about planetary sizes and distances. Learners will construct a scale model of the Earth, Earth�s... see more