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Hey Diddle Diddle
(Traditional)
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon,
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
For kids
Research in space and on the moon helps scientists learn about the environment here on Earth. Read about some of those “moony” experiments.
For teachers
NASA offers ScienceCasts of phenomena in space and the agency’s work to understand them, including this four-minute video of a lunar eclipse in 2014.
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