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Phases of the Moon
The Koumio® board that shows children why the Moon changes shape.
A hard-wearing interactive wooden model with a mechanical drive that helps children grasp the motion of celestial bodies through play.
60 × 60 cm
Dimensions
Czech Republic
Made in
Maintenance-free
Operation
How it works
What happens at the Koumio® board
Children follow the Moon orbiting the Earth, notice that the light always comes from the same direction, and use a built-in eyepiece to watch how the view from Earth changes. By experimenting they work out for themselves why the phases follow one another.
Curiosity questions
Keep going — scan the QR code
Every Koumio® board comes with simple instructions and an inquiry challenge that leads the child to apply what they have just found out. Scanning the QR code opens further curiosity questions and the answers.
What children take away
Why the Moon changes shape
A feel for how celestial bodies move
The experience of observing something for themselves
For public spaces
- Dimensions
- 60 × 60 cm, ready to hang straight away
- Material
- beech plywood, steel
- Mounting
- against removal and theft
- Manufacture
- in the Czech Republic
One thing left — to come and look at yours
The proposal is free of obligation and takes us an hour on site.