Text Set Cover Sheet School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Overview In this lesson, students examine the characteristics of day and night and the changes that occur. During the engage phase students will be asked the question where the sun goes at night? In the explore phase, students will help to fill out a KWL chart about the sun and will do three activities: understanding the earth’s rotation, daylight to darkness and the sun’s position in the sky throughout the day. For the explain phase students will be asked to show what they know thus far either by writing or drawing a picture. In the expand phase the question changes to why is the sun important to our earth which leads into discussing living and non-­‐living and the needs of living things. Finally in the evaluation phase we will finish the KWL chart and students will write/draw in their science journal what they have learned about day and night. Resource Types (check all that apply) X Nonfiction Text £ Article X Video £ Podcast £ Diagrams/Maps/ Drawings (etc.) £ Photograph £ Poetry £ Essay £ Music £ Infographics £ Graphic Text £ Artifact X Other (Fiction text) £ Narrative Expository Text Set Compilation Form School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Phase: Engage Activity After reading, Who Likes The Sun, without opening the flaps, we will stop towards the end of the book and ponder the question…I wonder where the sun goes at night. Teacher will write on chart paper student comments. Books Bibliographical Information Title: Who Likes The Sun? Author: Etta Kaner Publisher: Kids Can Press ISBN/URL: 978-­‐1-­‐55337-­‐840-­‐2 Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Annotation A story of why we like the sun and how the sun affects objects on Earth. Text Set Compilation Form School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Phase: Explore 1 Activity Teacher and students will fill out the K and W sections of the KWL chart (Know/What to Know/What we Learned) to see what prior knowledge they have about the sun. Review with students the book, Who Likes The Sun, and go over their written responses to the question of where does the sun go at night? After sharing all ideas, teacher can pick from the following activities/resources. Activity-­‐ Earth rotation around the sun Materials-­‐foil pie pan, yellow circle, marble. Directions-­‐tape the yellow circle in the middle of the pie pan to represent the sun and give each student a marble to represent the Earth. Students roll the marble around the inside of the pie pan. Activity-­‐Daylight to Darkness (What Makes Day and Night pages 20-­‐24) Materials-­‐stationary table lamp, student Directions-­‐turn off the classroom lights, and turn on the table lamp to simulate the sun. Have the child stand in the light beam to represent the Earth. Child spins to model the rotation of the Earth from sun up (day) to sun down (night). Books Bibliographical Information Annotation Title: Watch online a video about the closet star to Earth, Sun 101 the sun. Shows the sun up close. Video lasts about 2 minutes. Author: Video on Tumblebooks.com Publisher: National Geographic ISBN/URL: Title: Nonfiction book on the sun and its relationship to What Makes Day and Night the Earth, Moon and time. Author: Franklyn M. Branley Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN/URL: 978-­‐0-­‐06-­‐445050-­‐8 Text Set Compilation Form Title: Earth Cycles Author: Michael Elsohn Ross Publisher: Scholastic, Inc ISBN/URL: 978-­‐0-­‐545-­‐65544-­‐6 Title: The Sun Is My Favorite Star Author: Frank Asch Publisher: Voyager ISBN/URL: 978-­‐0-­‐15-­‐206397-­‐9 Easy to read expressive language the author explains how different cycles results in day and night and changes in time and seasons on Earth. Title: Sun Up, Sun Down Author: Gail Gibbons Publisher: Scholastic Inc ISBN/URL: 0-­‐590-­‐46047-­‐1 Title: Day on Earth Author: Following a little girl’s journey with the sun and her shadow from sun up to sun down. Following a young child in his adventures from morning to night. This is an informational video on how the Earth moves around the Sun. Publisher: ISBN/URL: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v-­‐r-­‐dtBfkzy10 Title: What Makes Day and Night Author: Song and video about the rotation and revolution of the Earth. Publisher: ISBN/URL: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoG1pF_r5zU Title: Kid friendly animated video that explains day and Day and Night Explanation, Causes Science For Kids night. Text Set Compilation Form Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hWkKSk13gkU Text Set Compilation Form School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Phase: Explore 2 Activity This activity would be performed multiple times during the school day to demonstrate the sun’s position in comparison to the object. Teacher and students go outside on a sunny day to a specific object that would create a shadow….. for example tree, flag pole, etc. Begin the discussion on the sun’s location in the sky and the effect it has on the object and the shadow it has created. Students will draw/write their observations in their science journal/blank paper. Books Bibliographical Information Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Annotation Text Set Compilation Form School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Phase: Explain Activity Referring back to Explore 1’s activity with the child and stationary light source, have students explain day and night in relationship to their body and light source. Have discussion about their findings from the sun position activity from Explore 2. Re-­‐read the book, Who Likes The Sun, and open the last flap as it goes in to more detail as where the sun goes at night. Students will either write and/or draw a picture to show what they know thus far about day and night. Books Bibliographical Information Title: The Sun and Moon Author: Patrick Moore Publisher: Copper Beech Books ISBN/URL: 1-­‐56294-­‐622-­‐6 Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Annotation Pages 8 and 9 explains how the sun moves across the sky. Text Set Compilation Form School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Phase: Expand Activity Read Henry Shortbull Swallows The Sun and have a discussion on what happened in the book when the sun was no longer in the sky. This story will lead into the question on why is the sun important to our Earth? We will start discussing living and non-­‐living and the needs of living things. Books Bibliographical Information Title: Henry Shortbull Swallows the Sun Author: Jill Kalz Publisher: Picture Window Books ISBN/URL: 1-­‐4048-­‐3695-­‐0 Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Annotation Fictional book about a young boy who swallows the sun which leaves the world in darkness and the effects it causes. Text Set Compilation Form School: Team Members: Lydia Brenner, Cindy Pleiman, Melinda Thompson Question: How do we know when it’s day and night? Phase: Evaluate Activity Students will write or draw in their science journals on what they have learned about the sun. Students and teacher will participate in group activity where they will complete the L section of the KWL chart. Teacher and students will go over the chart that was created during the ‘Engage’ activity of this text set asking the question where does the sun go at night? Books Bibliographical Information Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Title: Author: Publisher: ISBN/URL: Annotation