Education World – Staff Writer
“What better way to teach your students about the beauty and wonder behind lunar eclipses than to teach about the first “supermoon” lunar eclipse to grace Earth’s skies in three decades? “The supermoon total lunar eclipse, which occurs on Sept. 27, features a full moon that looks significantly larger and brighter than usual. It will be the first supermoon eclipse since 1982, and the last until 2033, NASA officials said,” according to Space.com. While normal eclipses are a somewhat frequent phenomenon, according to NASA supermoon eclipses have only occurred five times since 1900 (1910, 1928, 1946, 1964 and 1982).”(more)