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Understanding Lunar Eclipse

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Understanding Lunar Eclipse
3 min2nd3rd4th5thScience
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Summary

A short FreeSchool explainer on understanding lunar eclipse. FreeSchool's clear, calm narration makes it an easy clip to drop into a 2/3-grade lesson.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Understanding Lunar Eclipse is a short FreeSchool explainer you can drop into a lesson.

  1. What is this object, and where is it in space?
  2. What patterns can we see from Earth?
  3. What is one thing scientists still wonder about it?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: space, orbit, pattern.

Try it: Draw what this looks like and write one fact about it.

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