Phases of the Moon with OREOS 

How about eating your astronomy project? It is easy when you use OREO cookies to help visualize phases of the Moon.
In this month's SMAP Live, presenter Jonathan Sullivan-Wood takes us on a fun and engaging tour of the Moon, culture, lore and science, with the goal of understanding phases. We de-bug some common misconceptions about phases of the moon and reinforce the essential idea that the illumination of the moon is constant, while its position relative to Earth changes.
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Timeline
0:00 Presenter introductions
5:16 The Moon; history, wolves, culture and science
7:22 Wolves and the moon
10:36 Phases - the Moon in motion
16:27 Earth, Sun and Moon in 2-D motion
20:15 Breakout Activity - Modeling phases with OREOS
26:53 Discussion - Comparing OREO phase models
29:16 Moon phase animations
32:47 Recap of concepts
36:55 SMAP RU-vid and Heroic Science
SMAP thanks Purdue Physics and Astronomy grad student Jonathan Sullivan-Wood for his creative artwork in this month's thumbnail.