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Understanding Eclipses: Solar and Lunar Eclipse Worksheet

This three-page worksheet explores how solar and lunar eclipses occur, including Sun-Moon-Earth alignments, eclipse types, shadows, visibility, and safety.

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This three-page worksheet explores how solar and lunar eclipses occur, including Sun-Moon-Earth alignments, eclipse types, shadows, visibility, and safety. Students label diagrams, match eclipse descriptions, explain key vocabulary, and reflect on why eclipses do not happen every month.

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  • Students will explain the causes of solar and lunar eclipses.
  • Students will identify the alignments of the Sun, Moon, and Earth during eclipses.
  • Students will distinguish among total, partial, annular, and lunar eclipses.
  • Students will use terms such as umbra and penumbra to describe eclipse phenomena.