Phases of the Moon Paper & Digital-Flip Books, Spinners, Oreos, and more

This Phases of the Moon Hands-On Activity Pack is a fantastic, differentiated science resource for helping students explore and master the moon’s phases in a fun, tactile, and visually clear way. Whether you're teaching early elementary or older students who need visual scaffolding, this pack is designed to meet a variety of learning levels and teaching styles.

🌕 What’s Included and How to Use It:

✅ Pre-Assessment & Activation of Prior Knowledge

• K-W-L Chart
• A great way to start the unit, get students thinking, and revisit learning at the end.

📖 Content Delivery & Visual Anchors

• 2 Book Suggestions (with video links via Easel)
• Engaging multimedia helps support different learning modalities.
• Moon Phase Posters with Definitions
• Perfect for anchor charts, bulletin boards, or student notebooks.

📅 Real-World Observation

• Moon Phase Calendar
• Encourage students to observe the actual moon over the month and record daily phases—an excellent cross-curricular science/journaling task.

✂️ Differentiated Foldables (Great for Notebooks)

• Moon Phase Foldables
• With and without definitions
• 4 different ability levels (so you can differentiate easily)
• Perfect for interactive notebooks or review books
• Fan Foldable Book
• Compact, fun format to reinforce sequence and terminology

🎡 Engaging Manipulatives

• Phases of the Moon Wheel
• In color and B&W
• 3 difficulty levels
• Great for review or assessment, and fits well in a science center
• Oreo Moon Phases Activity
• Fun and delicious hands-on visual to cement understanding of waxing/waning, crescent, gibbous, etc.
• 3 levels again—perfect for scaffolding!

🎨 Creative Visual Learning

• Black Paper / White Crayon Moon Phase Drawing
• A great art-science integration task to reinforce visual memory

✅ Assessment Options

• Moon Phases Assessment
• Paper version + Easel (digital, self-checking)
• Easy for in-class or homework use
• Can be used as a pre- and post-test

💡 Teaching Tips

• Use the Oreo activity after students build understanding with the foldables or posters.
• The Fan Book and Wheel make excellent review tools.
• The calendar tracking can extend into a month-long cross-curricular project involving writing or math.