Is your class in the dark about what happens during solar and lunar eclipses? Help them see the light using a fun physics video! The narrator explains and illustrates both types of eclipse, then offers three handy methods for remembering what happens during each type.

Concepts

solar eclipses, lunar eclipse, eclipses, the earth's orbit, the earth's tilt, the sun, the moon

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the video to sum up a unit on moon phases and eclipses
• Pause the video and ask the class to create a hypothesis about why lunar eclipses are not exactly six months apart
  

Classroom Considerations

• Students should have a basic understanding of the earth-moon-sun system before watching the video
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• The explanations of each phenomenon are easy to understand 
• Acronyms help viewers remember the order of the earth, sun, and moon in both types of eclipses
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.9-10.2