Space: All About the Moon ... 25 Minutes. Click to preview
For: Years 3 - 7
Format: DVD/VHS
Type: Video
Price: NZ - $67.50, Aus - $67.50, International - Not Available
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All About The Moon asks & answers questions like:
1. When do we see the moon?
2. Does the moon always look the same to us? Why or why not?
3. How is the moon alike or different from the Earth?
4. What is the moon made of?
5. Does the moon affect the Earth in any way? If so, how?
The program explains these and many other questions with animation. It shows how the moon is the Earth’s closest neighbor in space. Long before Galileo viewed the moon’s surface through the first telescope over 300 years ago, the mysterious body that appears in our night sky has intrigued humankind. Over the years, scientists have studied the moon from the Earth and — beginning with Apollo 11 in 1969 — from the moon itself. Scientists have learned about eclipses and tracked the phases of the moon.We know that gravity keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth, and even though its force is much less, the moon does effect our planet by exerting its gravitational pull on the Earth’s oceans, which causes tides.When Neil Armstrong took that first giant leap the doors to colonizing the moon were opened, yet in comparison to the Earth, the moon is a place that, while fun to visit, would be a difficult place to live.