 Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken and today's experiment it's just a phase. The eight phases of the moon in order. As always adult supervision is required. What you need for this experiment is a shoe box, a box cutter, a ruler. Black spray paint is optional and a white ball. So I started with my shoe box and I selected the optional black spray paint. So I'm just spraying the inside of the black box to have a better viewing of the eight phases of the moon. Then we need to cut eight holes on the side of the shoe box and I got the measurements right here on the side. It's two by two squares, a half inch up quarter and a half inch in between. So you go ahead and you can freeze that and get those measurements. Every shoe box is going to be a little bit different. Now take your box cutter and be very careful as you know they're extremely sharp. You're only going to cut three sides of each square, two by two square. So once you have those marked you're going to do three or basically just making an open up windows on there. So we can view the moon through these different windows. So we're going to have that option by having the ball inside the box. And that hence having the optional black spray paint on the inside is going to make us help us look and see the moon a lot better. So go ahead and push those out. And so it looks like that. And then I'm just going to go ahead and do the other ones without showing you. Because I don't think I need to show you all eight. So here's three of them and I'll show you what it looks like after I get the other eight out. There is the measurements again. So you can always freeze that and look but all shoe boxes are going to be different. And so your sizes are going to vary. You just want to be able to make sure that the ball isn't too high and it fits into those holes. So you got one on each end and you've got three on each side and make sure that they're all facing the same direction. It kind of helps when you're going around the circle to view it. So there's the top view. I ended up painting the outside of the box too. I don't know why I did that. So now for the experiment I have a cue ball. If you play billiards and I put a little cap water bottle cap to hold it up and you put it directly in the middle of the box and you close it. And then we're able to do our experiment. According to NASA the moon travels a distance of 382,400 kilometers as it orbits around the Earth during a 29.53 day lunar cycle. Throughout this travel the moon waxes and wades and even becomes invisible for us for a short period. The eight separate phases are recognized during the lunar cycle and each one of them can be enjoyed in a comfort of your own porch. I start off with a small flashlight facing the cue ball that's in the middle and then I go to the other side and that's the new moon. The new moon's between the Earth and the Sun and on the side that's being lit is facing the Sun. Seeing the dark side which means we're unable to see the moon in the night sky. This is called the new moon cycle and it's considered the beginning of the moon phase. Phase two, the waxing curset moon. The moon travels eastward in the sky and a few days after the new moon we can see a slight edge or crescent in the moon and lit by the Sun. The common turn is a phase that's a waxing curset. Waxing means the growing larger or fuller. The third phase, the first quarter moon. The first quarter moon is the term used to describe the waxing moon that is exactly half lit. The moon is now one fourth of the way through the lunar cycle. The fourth phase is the waxing gibus moon. When the larger portion of the moon becomes illuminated it is called the gibus moon. Fifth phase is the full moon. At the full moon the moon's face is completely bright and we'll see an entire circle in the sky. During this part of the cycle the full moon rises at almost at the same time as the Sun is setting. The sixth phase, the waning gibus moon. The light on the moon begins to wane or grow thinner and once again we see the gibus shaped moon. In this case it's referred to the waning gibus. Seventh phase is the third quarter moon. The third quarter moon phase is when the moon is once again half lit. However this time the left side of the moon is lit instead of the right side. As the first quarter the moon is now three quarters of the way through its cycle. The eighth phase is the waning curset. The last phase is the lunar cycle. The moon appears to be a sliver in the sky before it becomes dark again. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did enjoy this video please click the thumbs up below or share this video. Thanks for watching!