Moon Journal

Your Moon Journal is a long-term study of the moon and will be done much as the other activities we have experienced in class. The project will start with you making some observations and collecting some data then proceed to you asking some questions and developing a procedure to collect the needed data to answer the questions you have asked.

Part I. To begin the study you will need to make some observations from the same location (controlling variables). The following procedure will be useful:
1) Find the moon,
2) Observe it at the same time for three days/nights over the course of at least a week (if possible),
3) One of those days observe it at three different times at least two hours apart.
For each of these observations make detail drawings of the moon itself and use background objects (mountains, trees, tall buildings) as reference points.
4) Keep a journal and after each observation write a paragraph or two on what
you observed and what you think that means. Also in your journal write some
things about the moon you would like to know more about.

To help you take data, try this sheet.

Part II. Now that you have made some observations make at least two significant hypotheses as to why you may have made some of the particular observations you did, then predict what you would expect to observe over the following week based on your hypotheses. Write all this in your journal. Make sure and describe what you think will observe over the next week and why based upon that what you observed in part I.

Conduct your experiment / observations and describe what you did observe. How well did this represent what you thought you observed? Write a one-page report connecting all that you did and reflecting upon the experience.