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Sun & Moon Games

Playing games involving the sun and the moon is an engaging way to learn about the heavenly bodies that have fascinated humans for centuries. Man-made lunar calendars have been found that are as old as 32,000 years. Archaeological findings from the Ice Age have discovered artifacts where the days between the phases of the moon have been carved into stones.

Gain Control Over the Sky
- Help the sun or moon gain control over the sky by clicking on objects to make the sun and moon collide with each other. Shine Wars, found at the Physics Games website, is a fun and clever game in which you have to time your clouds to help the sun change night to day and the moon to change it back. Moon and Sun, found at the Played Online website, is an inventive and fun online game in which you have to help the moon or sun reach the door. Construct a path so the sun or moon can reach the door by dropping objects. There are 20 different levels, and the number of objects you can drop is limited. To make the game even more fun you have to think where you place the objects to make sure that the path is sturdy.
Sun Worship
- Re-create the stones on Stonehenge to learn about the shadows that are cast by the sun. Stonehenge is a World Heritage Site in the Wiltshire countryside in England. It is unclear exactly why the ancient stones were raised, but it could have been a temple for sun worship or a huge calendar. The online game can be found at the National Geographic website.
Fly Me to the Moon
- Fly Me to the Moon is an amusing game in which you help the stage performing mouse to bounce off planets so that he can reach the big cheese -- the moon. The longer the audience cheers the better the performance and the higher the score. This game can be found at Flash Arcade Games Site. A twist on the traditional memory game can be found at Texas Space Grant Consortium website. Search for the matching pair by clicking on the backside of cards. You have to remember where a certain card is since you are only allowed to turn two cards at a time.
Good Night Moon
- Use the book "Goodnight Moon" by Mary Wise Brown to play moon games with younger children. This is a fun way to enjoy reading the book and also to learn about the moon. Play a word game in which you say, "The words moon and balloon rhyme; they sound they same at the end." Try to say the sound and find other words that rhyme in the book or search for words that rhyme with moon. Use different versions of the game I-Spy to work on rhyming words or to focus on finding things in the book that are, for example, red. You say "I spy with my little eyes something that rhymes with balloon," and your child has to say spoon or moon, for example.

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