You know what’s great about homeschool science? It doesn’t matter how many times people have written about oreo cookie moons as part of their moon unit, my kids haven’t seen it. So, it’s awesome and new to them. But, I still added in a few more ideas for our moon unit, just to make it extra fun.
Moon unit supplies
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Oreo Double Stuff* (because if you’re going to use Oreos, why not go for broke?), CD (you know those things we used to listen to music on), flashlight
Moon unit activity 1: how does the moon get light?
Techinically the moon doesn’t have its own light, technically it reflects the light from the sun. Of course we don’t say that because that is boring, and nowhere near as interesting as “look how bright the moon is shining tonight.”
Okay, back to the actual post, and not my random tangent.
To demonstrate this we took a CD and a flashlight, better add that to the supply list, and headed into my rather dark closet.
Then we shone the flashlight onto the CD and we could see the light that reflected off of the CD onto our hands. It made for a rather great demonstration.
And because that’s the kind of teacher I am I then drew a parallel to God. How we are supposed to reflect God’s light just like the moon reflects the sun (Sneak in a bit of family discipleship in the middle of our science lesson, go team me!).
Moon unit activity 2: Oreo cookie moons
Most everyone has seen this activity, so I’m not going to spend too much time on it, besides to say it’s an awesome excuse to eat lots of Oreo cookies.
Awesome excuse.
The kids had lots of fun arranging their cookies to create the waxing and waning cycle of the moon in the frosting with their Oreos, so it was a good addition to our moon unit.
Moon unit activity 3: creating craters
This last activity in our moon unit is actually one we’d done before, so we made reference to it.
We simulated making craters on the moon using random objects dropped into flour. It helps explain the way the moon looks and why there are so many craters, and besides it’s fun to do.
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