Social Studies Integration Page

• Moon Myths:
• A full moon can cause lunacy. Some police and hospital workers still claim that people are wilder on a full moon. There has not been any substantial statistical evidence for this claim though. 
• The Moon brings love. In Chinese folklore, Yue-Laou is an old man in the moon who unites predestined couples together. British women as well, who hoped to receive a dream about their true love would recite the following verse under a New moon: “New moon, new moon, I hail thee! By all the virtue in thy body, grant this night that I may see he who my true love is to be.” The Moon has also traditionally been appealed to in order to bring fertility. 
• The Moon changes size. The Inuit people that live in Greenland named their Moon god Anningan. According to his story, Annigan chases his sister Malina, the Sun goddess, around the sky. This tiring work, paired with a lack of food, causes Annigan to get much thinner. This myth was an attempt to explain the phases of the moon as it recedes from a full moon to a crescent.
• Ideas integrating historical events through space explorations:
• The unit could integrate space exploration by studying different trips to the moon and by recording:
• How it helped us learn more about the moon
• What it took to get up to the moon
• What the astronauts experience from being in space
• What we left on the moon and what we took back to Earth from the moon