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Globe

The Globe Program: All About Earth: Our World on Stage [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This delightful storybook provides young learners an understanding of how the Earth's processes work together. The students of an elementary classroom have been making costumes and practicing lines. Each student is playing the role of a...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: The Earth and Sky in a 24 Hour Day

For Teachers K - 1st
An activity where students learn, through modeling and demonstration, about the relative sizes of the Earth and Sun, the distance between them, and how the Earth rotates in a 24-hour period.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Big Star

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading passage is about the sun including what it is and what it does for the earth. It if followed by reading comprehension questions based on Common Core standards.
Interactive
Harvard University

Harvard Smithsonian: Everyday Classroom Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The focus of this series of lessons is to engage students in an exploration of the world around them. The emphasis is on inquiry as students learn about the earth, sun, light, shapes and more.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Reasons for the Seasons

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Why do some regions experience full-time heat while others are reckoning with frigid temperatures and snow? And why are the seasons reversed in the two hemispheres? Rebecca Kaplan explains how the shape of the Earth's orbit around the...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Speedy Shelter (Pdf)

For Students K - 1st
This is a hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides a full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Cloudy and Sunny

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Maria who learns that the sun feels warmer when the clouds are gone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses the weather, sun, earth, day, night, and rotation.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Day and Night

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will understand how the Earth rotates during a 24 hour period giving us day and night.
Interactive
CPALMS

Cpalms: Daytime and Nighttime

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The user looks at the daytime and nighttimeand what makes eachtime special as the student completes this interactive tutorial.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Moon Phases Box

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity is designed to allow students to observe and recognize the phases of the moon. They will develop a better understanding of the relationship between the position of the earth, moon and sun and how that affects the area of...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: From Morning to Night

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the day moves from morning to night. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Article
Other

Aircav: Shelters

For Students K - 1st
Informative site explaining what a shelter is and how to best construct a shelter. It also explores the types of shelters possible for construction in a survival setting.

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