Week of 1/4-1/8

This week we started the Astronomy Unit. We began it learning the 8 phases of the moon. The phases consist of New Moon, Waxing Crescent, 1st quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd moon Crescent, Waning Crescent. Then you start back to new moon, and go through them again. It takes the moon to complete one full rotation of these phases in 29.5 days. Thats pretty much a month. Later in the week we just had a lot of practicing on them. Which included homework assignments and class work. Which gave me and my class a better understanding of what the phases are and how we can remember. That concludes this week because thats all we did was learning the phases.

The real world application for this week was next time you walk outside in the dark look up at the sky and you can know what phase it is. Also scientists and lots of weather people use night time as a source of there news.