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Resources from the NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar: Timely Teachings: Seasons and the Cycles of Night and Day
Updated on Dec 11, 09
Created on Nov 30, 09
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This issue of Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears explores day and night, seasons, and the aurora. Content knowledge and science and literacy resources are included.
This resource guide from the Middle School Portal provides content knowledge, teaching resources, and standards alignment about the cause of Earth’s seasons.
An interactive site that allows you to create custom images of the Earth and Moon.
Content knowledge article written for elementary teachers.
This Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears article explores commonly held misconceptions about seasons and day and night. It includes resources for formative assessment and resources for teaching correct science concepts.
Contains the formative assessment probe, “Darkness at Night.”
This formative assessment probe assesses student ideas about how seasons vary in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and at the equator.
Read the entire National Science Education Standards online for free or register to download the free PDF. The content standards are found in Chapter 6.
Benchmarks for Science Literacy, Project 2061 online version
NSDL Science Literacy Maps help teachers connect concepts, standards, and NSDL resources.
Friendly illustrations complement this story about Oscar, a curious cat, who learns about light and dark from a moth. The moth teaches Oscar about the rotating earth, the sun and stars, shadows, and interesting facts about light and dark. The facts are interwoven into the story, which relays the information at the simplest level.
Language arts skills are linked to the learning of science in a literacy-based approach to the study of shadows. Through discussion of literature on shadows and the use of questioning techniques to probe prior knowledge, students in grades K-2 begin to explore scientific concepts and develop and test hypotheses. After studying shadows, recording observations of shadows, and hearing poetry about shadows, students create their own poetic response incorporating their knowledge.
A little girl introduces the four seasons as she observes them at home on the farm. Each season brings changes in the natural world and in her activities.
This free article from the NSTA journal Science and Children describes activities based on trade books that deepen students' conceptual understanding of seasonal change.
This visually appealing and conceptually sound book introduces elementary students to the concepts of day and night. The book provides many opportunities to stimulate discussions and perform demonstrations.
This beautiful and intriguing book portrays arctic animals and weather throughout the changing seasons. Each two-page spread features a different time of year, complete with the total number of sunlight hours and average daily temperatures.
This free article from the NSTA journal Science and Children describes science lessons that incorporate trade books for students in grades K-3 and 4-6, including Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights.
Astronomy with a Stick, or AWS, is a series of three units that address this question: Why do daylight hours vary in length where we live? To answer this question, students make indirect observations of the Sun on the school playground and with models built in the classroom. Students keep journals, graph data, and discuss findings with peers and as a class. Recommended for grades 3-5.
Mystery Class is a collaborative activity for students in grade 4 and up. In this 11-week program, students use clues - sunrise and sunset times from 10 mystery locations - and similar data from their hometown to determine the locations of the mystery classes. The 2008 program ran from January to May.
This website created by Stevens Institute of Technology and the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) allows students from around the world to work together to determine how average daily temperatures and hours of sunlight change with distance from the equator. Recommended for students in upper elementary, middle, and high school.
25 items | 8 visits
Resources from the NSDL/NSTA Web Seminar: Timely Teachings: Seasons and the Cycles of Night and Day
Updated on Dec 11, 09
Created on Nov 30, 09
Category: Schools & Education
URL: