Curriculum
Science — First Preparatory
Unit 1: Matter
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Unit 2: Forces
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Unit 3: Life
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Text lesson
Lunar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
Common mistakes
Common mistakes
- Believing that the Moon’s shadow causes a lunar eclipse. It is the Earth’s shadow that does.
- Believing that an eclipse happens at every full moon. It happens only at full moon, and not at every full moon because of the tilt of the Moon’s orbit.
- Confusing a lunar eclipse with a solar eclipse. In a lunar eclipse the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon; in a solar eclipse the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun.
- Believing that the Moon glows with its own light. The Moon only reflects sunlight.
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