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Lunar Web Tool Lab
All of Mrs. Girtain students please read these directions completely before following any of the links. To begin you will click this link http://www.calvin.edu/~lmolnar/moon/ to open the Lunar Web Tool. It may help to explore each of the pages of the Lunar Phases Web Tool and read the descriptions below each image. Note the lab is interactive and you may move the stick figure image to help visualize the concepts. Please go to the Quia.com link to find your questions for the lab. The questions are given one at a time and you may not go back and change an answer once it is submitted. Your grade, your answers and the correct answers will be displayed at the completion of the lab questions. You must type lwtl per # (# = your specific period # ex per 2) to access the lab questions. Don't forget to enter your full name.
All students that do not have Mrs. Girtain for Earth Science please use the questions below for the lab.
In order to work on the lab questions below and work with the Lunar Phases Web Tool, you need to have two browser windows open. Go to the top of this page and select File on the browser. Under File select New and then Window. Once the new window opens click http://www.calvin.edu/~lmolnar/moon/ and read through the lab. Please note the lab is interactive and you may move the stick figure image to help visualize the concepts.
Read
the instructions for the Lunar Phases Web Tool.
1.
What are the first 3 assumptions that are made by this lab?
2.
What are the 3 assumptions that are made by this lab for the day /night cycle?
3.
What 2 things do you need to know if you want to know where to look in the sky
to find the moon?
Go
to The Time of Day Tutorial. Read the explanation below the interactive
tutorial. Try using the tutorial to get more familiar with the relative position
of the sun based on the time of day. Draw the proper diagram for # 10
4.
Why is East to the left of the stick figure?
5.
What symbol shows you the direction of the sun & is it on the left or right
side of the screen?
6.
Please notice that the time of day is always labeled above the red stick figures
head. What time is it if the stick figure's head was between 6am and Noon?
7.
What time is it if the sun is directly over the stick figures head?
8.
What time is it if the sun is due east of the stick figure?
9.
What time is it if the sun is due west of the stick figure?
10.
Draw the Earth, a stick figure & the sun's rays to demonstrate 12pm and than
a diagram showing 3am.
Go
to the bottom of the page and click on Apparent Direction of Moon. Use the tool
to explore the direction the Moon is from the stick figure. Try all the
direction options so you are familiar with the terminology.
11.
Remember that straight up is 6pm. What moon phase is seen straight above the
observer's head at 6pm?
12.
What moon phase is seen due west of the stick figure if it is 6pm?
13.
What moon phase is below the western horizon if it is 6pm?
14.
Rotate the stick figure so it is 3am. Remember the stick figure's head needs to
be between Midnight and 6am. What phase of the moon is seen straight above the
observer's head at 3am?
16.
What phase of the moon is below the eastern horizon at 3am?
Go
to the Tool & Quiz. Read the explanation & try to predict the time of
day, based on the Time of Month and Direction to the moon that is given in gray.
Notice you only have to determine one factor based on the two factors the
computer gives you. The factor given will change. Try this about 10 -20 times.
When you have mastered the concept and finished these questions, come ask me for
the quiz.
17.
Draw and label each phase of the moon as it would be seen in our sky.
Note these are shown on the left hand side of the Tool & Quiz page.
Go
to the Beyond the Basics page. Read the whole page and answer the questions
below.
18.
Where is the view of the Earth from in this tool?
19.
What is the average time elapsed from, say, New Moon to First Quarter?