Lunar Eclipse Bingo Cards

Eclipses Bingo Card

These cards are about Eclipses. An eclipse is defined as a partial or complete obscuring of one celestial body by another. It occurs when the moon is directly aligned with the sun and the earth. These include words like Aubrey holes, ascending node, ecliptic, partial eclipse, and second contact.

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Words List For Eclipses Bingo Cards

Aubrey holes Baily's beads annular eclipse annular-total eclipse aphelion eclipse
ascending node central eclipse chromosphere corona descending node
ecliptic first contact fourth contact lunar negative shadows
partial eclipse path of totality penumbra perihelion saros
second contact shadow bands third contact totality umbra



How To Play Lunar Eclipse Bingo

  1. Print out your free Eclipses bingo boards, or make custom ones with Bingo Card Creator. Click here to get started.
  2. Give one card to each player.
  3. Call off words randomly, for example by using a call list. You can either just say a word, like "fourth contact", or you can make up a more involved clue involving fourth contact.
  4. When a word is called, each player should find it and mark it.
  5. The first player(s) to clear five words in any direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) wins a small prize.

Notes: How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be. Almost 90% of bingo games with a 25 word list and 25 players will see their first bingo within 7 to 11 words being called.