Solar and Lunar Eclipses Sub Plan (No Prep): Eclipse News Desk, Grades 5-8

Students work at a news desk. Two readers have sent in made-up tips about something strange in the sky: one saw a dark shape slide across the Sun, the other saw a shadow creep across the Moon. Students decide which tip is a solar eclipse and which is a lunar eclipse, name what is in the middle and whose shadow falls on what, and name the Moon phase each one needs.

What's inside

• Sub Plan, 2 pages
• Student Packet, 2 pages
• Answer Key, 1 page, with a suggested 30-point grading guide
• 6 files in all. Print only: no slides, no tech, no scissors.

Answer key included

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