I am an elementary school teacher at Orchard School . Before the winter holidays I spent three days teaching my class about moon activities that I had learned at a RAFT workshop last summer entitled 'Crafty Moon Activities'. The lessons I used to introduce the moon to my second and third graders were: Modeling the Moon’s Rotation, Moon: Nearside-Far side, and Nine and a Half to the Moon. In these lessons, based on RAFT Idea Sheets , the children learned using movement and hands on materials where and how the moon moves, what it looks like on both sides of the moon, and physically how far the moon is from the earth. We then talked about the fact that the moon doesn’t change shape, but that the reflection of the sunlight on the moon creates the images that we see at night. To illustrate this point, I used the RAFT Idea Sheet Holding the Moon in Your Hand . Using a light source and simple RAFT materials like Styrofoam balls with coffee stir s...