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Yardstick Eclipse

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A giant solar eclipse in the sky with a road in the foreground and trees on the horizon.

In this lesson designed for any grade, youth create a scale model of the Earth-Moon system to demonstrate and explain how eclipses happen.

Lesson time: 30 minutes

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