Objectives: • Demonstrate and illustrate how the relative positions of the sun, earth and moon cause the phases of the moon as seen from earth. • Given a drawing or photograph of the moon in any phases, be able to correctly name that phase and draw a diagram showing the relative positions of Earth, the moon, and the sun for that phase. • Given a diagram showing any possible set of relative positions of Earth, the moon, and the sun, determine the name of the moon phase and draw what the moon would look like in that phase. • State which way the moon revolves around Earth and describe a method for figuring this out. • Demonstrate why we always see the same side of the moon (the face side of the “man in the moon”) • Demonstrate what causes lunar and solar eclipses • Explain why eclipses don’t happen every month
