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🔬 1st Grade · Science1-ESS1-1Unit 3: Patterns in the sky

The sun moves across the sky

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🎯 Objective: Students observe the sun’s apparent path during the day.

Lesson outline

  1. Shadow stick observations morning and afternoon.
  2. Record.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: where was the sun in the morning?

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1-ESS1-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 1 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Describe patterns of the sun, moon and stars
  • Relate the amount of daylight to the time of year

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Patterns in the sky”

  1. The sun moves across the sky
  2. Moon shapes
  3. Stars at night
  4. Daylight through the year

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