How the Moon Makes Tides
Interactive worksheet with auto-grading, instant feedback, and printable PDF.
- Format
- Interactive (Online), Printable (PDF)
- Grades
- 678
- Subjects
- science
- Standards
- NGSS. MS-ESS1-1MS-ESS1-2
What's included
About this worksheet
Show students the chain of cause and effect behind ocean tides with this graphic organizer for NGSS MS-ESS1-1 and grades 6-8. Working through connected step boxes, students lay out the fact that never changes, the cause, and the effects, building a clear model of how the Moon's gravity produces the tides.
The organizer guides students from the Moon's gravity pulling hardest on the nearest water, to the two tidal bulges (including the keystone far-side bulge), to the result of about two high tides and two low tides each day. A final box explains why each high tide arrives about 50 minutes later than the day before.
A complete answer key is included, and the sheet prints cleanly in black and white. Use it as guided notes or an interactive notebook page within the full tides unit for a connected teach, practice, and assess sequence.
- Step-by-step cause-and-effect structure
- Answer key included
- Aligned to NGSS MS-ESS1-1, grades 6-8
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- Standards-aligned
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