Middle School teachers are always complaining that days of a full moon are always the toughest. They wish that when the school calendar is planned that PD days, teacher workdays, weather days, and fall/spring breaks were planned around these pesky full moons.

Use a moon calendar and find a way to create a schedule for the next school year. There has to be 180 school days for students and 188 for teachers. Use this year’s school calendar to see when school starts and finishes plus what breaks and workdays are in the calendar.

Middle School NGSS:

MS-ESS1-1. Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

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Alabama Science Standards

AL SC Grade 6 - 11. Create and manipulate models (e.g., physical, graphical, conceptual) to explain the occurrences of day/night cycles, length of year, seasons, tides, eclipses, and lunar phases based on patterns of the observed motions of celestial bodies.

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STEM Challenge Card created by Amanda C. Dykes

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These challenge cards are created for the purpose of teachers to use in their classroom. They are FREE to use and will always be free to use for teaching purposes only. The challenge cards can be shared or duplicated as long as attribution is given.

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They are NOT created to be used on TpT or for ANY purposes that are commercial are for profit. If you see these are any variation for sale or being used outside of teaching purposes, please contact the author, Amanda Dykes, at amandacdykes@gmail.com. If you use these on TpT or the like, be prepared to be reported and contacted to turn over any profits.