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Moon Thinking Hats Worksheet

Read the Moon facts and use different thinking hats to investigate. Some answers use evidence; others ask for your own ideas or feelings.

White Hat: Gather the facts

Moon mission briefing: Earth’s Moon is a rocky object that travels around Earth. It does not make its own light; sunlight reflects from its surface. The Moon’s surface has craters made when space rocks hit it. The Moon’s gravity is weaker than Earth’s, so an astronaut would weigh less there. The Moon takes about 27 days to orbit Earth. From Earth, we see different amounts of its sunlit half during the month; these are called phases.

1.White Hat: Choose the best explanation. Why can we see the Moon shining in the night sky?
  • It makes its own light.
  • It reflects light from the Sun.
  • Earth shines light through it.
  • It is made of glowing rock.
2.White Hat: Name two features or facts about the Moon from the mission briefing.
3.White Hat: The Moon looks different across the month. What is the name for these changing appearances?

Yellow Hat: Find the bright side

The Moon is our closest natural neighbour in space. Its changing phases are easy to observe, and studying it helps people learn about space and how objects move.

4.Yellow Hat: Which statement is a benefit of studying the Moon?
  • It helps us learn about objects and movement in space.
  • It makes the night longer.
  • It changes Earth’s seasons every week.
  • It gives the Moon its own light.
5.Yellow Hat: Imagine a crew is planning a Moon visit. Give one useful reason scientists might study the Moon before the crew goes.

Red and Green Hats: Feelings and possibilities

Use your imagination, but connect your ideas to what you know about the Moon.

6.Red Hat: How might you feel looking at Earth from the Moon? Choose one or more feelings, then explain one choice.
7.Green Hat: Invent one activity an astronaut could do on the Moon that would be different from doing it on Earth. Explain why it would be different.
8.Green Hat: Design a simple Moon-visitor safety rule. What hazard or challenge does your rule help with?
Draw a mission patch showing one Moon fact or feature. Add a short label to explain your choice.
9.Blue Hat: Summarise the most important Moon fact you learned. How could you check that it is true?
10.Blue Hat: A classmate says, “The Moon changes shape because part of it disappears.” Use the briefing to correct this idea.

4 printable pages

  • Moon Thinking Hats Worksheet, page 1 of 4: White Hat: Gather the facts

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  • Moon Thinking Hats Worksheet, page 2 of 4: Yellow Hat: Find the bright side, Red and Green Hats: Feelings and possibilities

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  • Moon Thinking Hats Worksheet, page 3 of 4: 7. Green Hat: Invent one activity an astronaut could do on the Moon that would be

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  • Moon Thinking Hats Worksheet, page 4 of 4: 10. Blue Hat: A classmate says, “The Moon changes shape because part of it

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