The Moon

The change between the seasons that happens around the autumn equinox is illustrated on this simple but effective poster.

This word search puzzle is all about the Autumn Equinox. Can you find words such as equator, September, autumn and others in the grid?

This is a fun activity for children - to complete the picture of what is happening underneath this lovely, orange harvest moon.

We've created a fun and challenging worksheet to help the kids learn about day and night. Can they shade part of the earth in darkness and say whether it's day or night on each picture? 

Use this equinox story paper to describe what an equinox is, or as inspiration for some creative story writing or poetry...

Learn all about the harvest moon by reading our cloze activity and filling in the blanks, picking the missing words from the word bank at the bottom.

This beautiful photographic poster of the harvest moon is perfect for putting up on the whiteboard or the wall, to show children just what we mean by the full, orange moon with this name.

This photo-illustrated story paper might be useful for writing a story based around the harvest moon, or perhaps making notes on what you have learned about it.

The harvest moon, with its orange glow over the world below, can feel quite exciting and unusual - as if all sorts of things might happen beneath its glow. This story starter encourages the children to think up their own creative story.

This Moon Landing worksheet encourages the kids to ask someone who was alive in 1969 to talk about their memories of the Moon Landing. A fun and personal way to do some research!

Concentration and good observation skills are needed to complete this moon grid copy puzzle.  

This lovely, detailed colouring page for older children shows the moon landing of Apollo 11 in 1969, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin taking man's first steps on the moon. We have two versions available: the full size version should be printed with borderless settings.

Can the kids write about the Moon Landing from the point of view of one of the crew, their family, Nasa control, someone watching at home or even the president of the USA at the time? How would the experience be for them?

This fun fact-finding worksheet will encourage the kids to do some research on the moon landing.

Can you find all the words to do with the Moon Landing hidden in this wordsearch? Just print and start looking...

Have you ever seen the moon change shape in the sky from a thin crescent to a full moon then back again over a lunar month? There are eight named phases of the moon, and these cards are a fun way to help children learn them.

This poster is great for teaching kids the different phases of the moon and shows simple diagrams of each phase. It can be printed easily and used as part of a classroom display. It can also be used with our phases of the moon worksheet.

We have two versions of this colouring page, featuring a tree changing from winter to spring. One has the heading 'spring equinox' and the other has the heading 'vernal equinox' - just click on your preferred option below to download and print. 

Use this story paper to write down some facts about the Spring Equinox, or as the setting for a creative story set at this time of year.

Are you learning about the different seasons at the moment? If so, ask the kids to try and complete this Spring Equinox Worksheet, which has questions all about the Spring Equinox, and space to draw and label a picture too.

Here's a fun activity to help the kids learn more about a solar eclipse. Print the pages onto some card, cut out the suns and moons (and laminate if you wish)  - then see if the children can match the suns and moons by size to create their own solar eclipse! 

This useful sun and moon writing frame is perfect for any space themed project.