Classroom Implementation Page

If I was to do this project in 4th grade classroom or higher, I would modify this project by having them sketch the moon each night (in their moon journal) for homework, but then then the next day we would figure out what phase the moon was in as a class. I would also have my students have a "moon prediction" chart that they would draw what they though the moon would look like that night and check if the prediction was correct or incorrect the next day. I would communicate with the parents by sending a letter before the moon unit to encourage their child to pay attention to the moon. An idea to make the unit more "user friendly" would be to send home a "moon calendar" that parents could hang on the fridge to keep track of the moon with their children.