Oreo Moon Phases

In our Sky Watchers unit, we spent three days learning about what our moon is, how it functions, and it’s different phases. We watched many different videos, read books about the Moon and our Earth. We had practiced the Moon Phases with a coloring sheet, in addition to carving the cream on Oreos to create a shadow for the moon.

Justification:

• uses teaching approaches that are sensitive to the multiple experiences of learners and that address different learning and performance modes 
• establishes instructional groupings to productively engage diverse learners 
• selects learning tasks, technologies and instructional strategies for enhancing student engagement 
• represents content in multiple ways, appropriate to the culturally diverse and special needs inclusive classroom 

• facilitates connections of new content to student prior understandings and experience 
• chooses instructional materials to engage diverse learners 
• paces lesson to facilitate learning by all 
• structures lesson in coherent, organized sequence