
Collaborative Weblink Service
by George Pilling, District Library Media Specialist
The Moon
for Terri Lieberman
June, 2002

Why does the Moon have phases? http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/Phases.shtml
The Phases of the Moon http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html View the phases of the Moon for any date and time from 1800 to 2199 A.D. Provided by the Time Service Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory.
A Q&A on the Phases of the Moon from NASA http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/amoonp.html
Pictures of the moon from Earth http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-m&img=Moon.evif
Phases of the Moon 1990-2005 http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/MoonPhase.html Browse Moon data provided by the US Naval Observatory's Astronomical Applications Department. Find what the moon looked like when you were born (age 11 and under.)
Lunar Phases http://www.calvin.edu/~lmolnar/moon An interactive Java tool for teaching the relationship between the phase of the Moon, the time of day, and the direction in which the Moon is observed.

Note: Most of the above sites were found through Education World http://www.educationworld.com and Ask Jeeves for Kids http://www.ajkids.com