Weekly blog 4/20/18

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Summary:
       There are 8 phases of the moon and they are the new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, wast quarter and waning crescent. The waxing stages are when the moon is "growing" from a new moon to a full moon and waning is when it is "shrinking" from a full to a new moon. The reason why it looks like their are different "stages" of the moon is because of how much is visible on earth.  The earth rotates which gives us days and nights and the moon orbits the earth which makes it get closer or further from the sun. The closer the moon is to the sun the less the moon shows and the further it is from the sun the more moon shows. The moon does not actually change its shape but it looks different because it orbits the earth. Each cycle the moon goes through takes about 29 days so it will look different on different day of the month.

S&EP: Developing and using models:
        We were doing a formative and we had to do lots of drawings to show the different phases of the moon and seeing what the moon was like on certain days. We had to see what phases of the moon would it be for this whole month  and we had to see what phase the moon was o during our birthdays. From looking and drawing these things I found out that on the day I was born and I found out I was born on a full moon and this year my birthday is going to be between a last quarter and a waning gibbous. I also found out that this month the full moon is going to be on the 1st, 29th and the 30th. We had t do lots of drawings of the phases of the moon to show what the moon will be like during certain times and all of the phases of the moon.