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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Which is why they learn about moon phases in 2, 4, and 6 grades. It's like the state of Virginia wants us to raise an army of werewolf slayers or something.[/quote]

LOL.  The curriculum should focus on skill building (especially in elementary grades), not on specific topics like this.  That's where the problem lies. [/quote]

Skill building isn't done in a vacuum, you need a context for those skills, especially if you want to keep kids engaged. A unit on phases of the moon, done properly, won't just be reciting the phases of the moon. Obviously the skills they're building will vary based on age, but you could use it to build reading skills (by reading books on phases of the moon), research and writing skills (by doing a research paper on phases of the moon using a variety of research sources), science (not just the facts of planetary motion, which is pretty cool on it's own, but observation and recording skills by having them do a moon observation), you could tie the science into math depending on what they're doing, whether it's basic fractions, or more advanced math involved in calculating aspects of the motion patterns), a social studies lesson on how various cultures have interpreted the changes in the moon through history, etc.[/quote]

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