Description

SKE1: Students will describe time patterns (such as day to night and night to day) and objects (such as sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky.
a.   Describe changes that occur in the sky during the day, as day turns into night, during the night, and as night turns into day.
b.   Classify objects according to those seen in the day sky and those seen in the night sky.
c.   Recognize that the sun supplies heat and light to the Earth.

Essential Questions

How does the earth change throughout the day?

What does the sun do?

Lesson Plans

BBC's Light and Shadows Lesson Plan

NASA's KSNN What Changes a Shadow's Size Lesson

NASA's KSNN What Causes Night and Day Lesson

• Our Home in Space- United Streaming/ NASA video in which singing puppets teach about Learn about the importance of the sun, some characteristics of the Earth, what causes day and night and the change of seasons, and how the moon moves. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Science Facts and Fun: What's in a Shadow- United Streaming video in which students learn about the earth's rotation and the earth-sun relationship is illustrated to explain the rising and setting of the sun. Includes teacher's guide and quiz. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• Tick Tock: All About the Clock- United Streaming video in which students learn about clocks, why time is important, and how the earth spinning on its axis causes day and night. Includes teacher's guide. (Must be logged onto United Streaming for link to open).

• BBC's Light and Shadows allows students to virtually test objects by using light to project shadows.

• Sammy's Science House: Construct in the Workshop

• Math Blaster: Knock-a-Clock

• SmartBoard: Moon Phases Notebook Activity

• SmartBoard: The Moon Animation