Moon resources

Task: Select whether statements about the Moon are true or false. Assessment focus: the Moon.

Students are required to write down some relevant questions about the Moon's surface that they would ask an astronaut who has just returned to the Earth from the Moon.

In this NEMP task students look at photos to describe similar and different environmental features of the moon, the Earth, Mars and the sun. Assessment focus: The solar system. In the original NEMP task the assessor gave oral instructions, read the questions and wrote the answers for each student.

Students are asked three multiple-choice questions that relate to tides, the full moon and a solar eclipse.

Task: Answer 2 multiple choice questions about how we would see Moon from Earth if its orbit changed. Assessment focus: relationship of Sun, Earth, and Moon.

This practical resource requires students to demonstrate some phases of the Moon.

Task: Answer questions about types of solar eclipse. Assessment focus: interpreting diagrams.

Task: multiple choice questions and interpreting a diagram. Assessment focus: phases of the moon.

For this task students understanding of tides is explored. Students are asked to identify where high tides occur when the Moon is in a certain position and how often high tides occur.

Students answer two multiple-choice questions about full Moon and lunar eclipses.

For this practical task students investigate some features of craters, complete a table, and explain what they found out. Students then use a diagram showing some craters on the Moon to write as much information as they can about these craters.

Students use two diagrams of the night sky to answer a multiple-choice question on each.