These myths vary from one culture to the next, but many of them are amazingly similar. And some were believed long after the civilizations that created them had disappeared. Myths and legends are also the basis of the next level lunar activity, MoonQuest. Birthday Moons utilizes the primary developmental strategy of working alone and then together. MoonQuest follows with the next social-developmental level of working together in teams.
Students divide into cooperative groups to investigate the moon.
Each group has a task for creating a collaborative brochure or multimedia presentation. NASA provides information and image data from all its missions. NASA's Web site Windows on the Universe is the resource selected to launch the project. The students' challenge is to locate additional primary resources to develop the exhibit. Yesterday's myth becomes fertile ground for posing today's scientific questions.