50 years ago, Neil Armstorng took the first steps on the moon.\u00a0 Let’s celebrate with some fun moon themed activities you can explore at home!<\/p>\n
Make Craters<\/strong><\/p>\n What are those interesting looking dimples on the moon’s surface?\u00a0 Craters!\u00a0 You can explore how craters are formed with an experiment.\u00a0 Place a powder (such as flour or corn starch) in a shallow dish.\u00a0 Have your child stand over the dish and drop objects (such as a marshmallow, ball, or block) into the powder.\u00a0 Experiment with a variety of sizes, shapes, or drop heights.\u00a0 Ask your child to predict how each crater will look.<\/p>\n Why can we see so many craters on the moon’s surface?\u00a0 The moon has no atmosphere, and thus no erosion.\u00a0 It also has not experienced tectonics or volcanism for billions of years.\u00a0 Without these processes, nothing on the surface changes.<\/p>\n Munch Moon Phases<\/strong><\/p>\n Using cream filled cookies (such as Oreos), open the cookie carefully so the cream remains on side.\u00a0 Then scrape away part of the cream to create the various shapes of the moon phases.<\/p>\n Design a Lunar Module<\/strong><\/p>\n Astronauts use a smaller spacecraft called a lunar module to move from lunar orbit to the surface of the moon.\u00a0 Using items you have on hand, design your own lunar module.\u00a0 What will it need to land gently on the surface – for example, will you add springing legs or a parachute?<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fun, moon themed explorations to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nb-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13543,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530\/revisions\/13543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}