Phases of the Moon

The Moon has Lot's of phases it goes through in the 29 days it takes it to revolve around the earth. We explored all these phases in numerous ways, first with a flash light which represented the sun shining on to small Styrofoam balls which represented the Earth and moon. The moon moved around earth and the sun light affected different parts of the ball. We also used a moon clock which was effective in learning the phases. We Looking at everything I noticed that always have of the moon is light Just like Earth. We see different parts of the moon each night because the sun shines on the moon differently corresponding to the moons direction.

Making a model really helped me understand the phases of the moon I could clearly see why and where the sunlight is shining. Disadvantages of using models are that they are not always accurate and can sometimes show us a wrong representation.