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Help students visualize a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse with the diagrams in this printable. After reading about eclipses, students will sequence the stages of a solar eclipse. Then, they will try an experiment to find out why the Moon glows red in a lunar eclipse.

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Eyewitness Workbooks: Stars & Planets
Eyewitness Workbooks: Stars & Planets
By Claire Watts
This workbook helps kids take their knowledge of stars and planets to the next level. It includes 48 full-color pages, a turn-and-learn info wheel, and special carrying folders.

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Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, 2005 - 2015

Note: The day of an eclipse is given in Universal Time (U.T.

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