Keep a journal of lunar observations for two months.
To create your journal pages, draw a 10 cm circle on a page to sketch what you see, then add a table to record the date, time, local weather conditions, your location, and general observations.
Make 60 photocopies and bind them with a report cover.
At the end of the observation period, read your notes.
Can you create a calendar based on your observations?
Most newspapers and many Web sites post monthly lunar tables.
Study a lunar table to become familiar with the vocabulary.
Invite an astronomer to explain why lunar tables are important?
and why they are published in newspapers.
A light year is the distance light travels in one Earth year, ten trillion kilometers.
Light travels at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second.
When you see the moon, it's really a snapshot of something that happened how long ago?