Moon ABC's

Moon ABC's

This color image of the Moon was taken by Galileo at 9:35 a.m. PST, December 9, 1990, at a range of about 350,000 miles. From: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/galileo/galileo.html

Task: To create an ABC Book of Moon Facts.

Process: Your teacher will provide a template and instructions on how to use Publisher. Using the links below find a fact to go with each letter of the alphabet. You may choose to include facts about the moon or facts about moon exploration or a combination of both. You do not have to start your explanation with a word that begins with that letter. The main idea can start with the letter and you can put it in bold or italic type, write it somewhere on the page, whatever you choose to do. Somewhere on the page copy and paste the URLs from which you obtained your information.

Links:

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/UNIVERSE/MOON.HTML - This page is a MUST. Find what the moon looked like on the day of your birth.

http://www.inconstantmoon.com/inconstant.htm - This is also a calculator that will give you the moon at the exact time of your birth but time is recorded with the 24-hr. clock.

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/earth/moons_and_rings.html&sn=0&cd=false&cdp=/windows3.html&art=ok&frp=/windows3.html&fr=f&tour=&sw=false&edu=mid - Lots of facts regarding the physical features of the moon

http://www.moonlightsys.com/themoon/phases.html - The Physical Moon and Its History

http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal100/gal100.html - Milestones of Flight, good for what happened when

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/thumbnail_pages/moon_thumbnails.html - Moon Thumbnail Pictures from NASA

Apollo pictures and information

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_11_30th.html - 30th Anniversary of Apollo

http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/attm/nojs/fs.html -Racing to Space

http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html - Apollo 11 Image Gallery

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/apollotop10.htm - Scientific Discoveries Made During Apollo Exploration of the Moon

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/shadow/space_level2/apollo11.html - Apollo 11 information including two interesting video clips

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/captions/earth/plum.htm - Plum Crater on the Moon

http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/cchoice/moonrocks/moonrocks1.htm - Apollo Moon Rocks

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/moonexplore.htm - Moon Exploration after Apollo

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1601799 - From National Public Radio, this has lots of interesting information and pictures!

http://www.zarya.info/ - The Soviet Space Program provides a "Z"

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/space_missions/manned.html&edu=elem

Created by Anne Bryant 3/17/04