NGSS Science and Engineering PracticesScience & Engineering Practices Addressed
1) Constructing Explanations, Grades 6-8: Construct an explanation that includes qualitative or quantitative relationships between variables that predict phenomena.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
2) Developing and Using Models, Grades 6-8: Develop a model to predict and/or describe phenomena.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
3) Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking Use mathematical representations to support scientific conclusions.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
1) Constructing Explanations, Grades 6-8: Construct an explanation that includes qualitative or quantitative relationships between variables that predict phenomena.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
- AAPT Lesson: Eclipse Science -- Modeling Eclipses in the Solar System
- NASA Glenn Research Center: Earth-Moon Model Activity
- NASA Connect: Path of Totality -- Measuring Angular Size and Distance
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: The Last Total Solar Eclipse Ever!
- University of Texas UTeach Outreach: Gravity and Orbits Unit
2) Developing and Using Models, Grades 6-8: Develop a model to predict and/or describe phenomena.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
- AAPT Lesson: Eclipse Science -- Modeling Eclipses in the Solar System
- PhET Simulation: Gravity and Orbits
- Solar and Lunar Eclipse Model
- Phases of Moon Model
- University of Nebraska NAAP Project: Lunar Phases Lab
3) Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking Use mathematical representations to support scientific conclusions.
Activities correlating to this Practice:
- University of Nebraska NAAP Project: Lunar Phases Digital Lab
- Solar and Lunar Eclipse Model
- Crash Course Astronomy: Eclipses
- NASA Total Eclipse 2017: Math Challenges
- Genius by Stephen Hawking: Total Eclipse and Solar Eclipse
- NASA: Ball and String -- Earth/Moon Model Activity
- NASA Connect: Path of Totality-Measuring Angular Size and Distance
- NASA: The Last Total Solar Eclipse Ever!