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“The Seasons and the Sun” Informational Earth Science Bundle

1st Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$6.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Discover concepts about seasons and the sun (rotate and revolve)
  • Using diagrams, drawing, labeling, chanting  to help understand the concept
  • Participate in structured collaborative discussions.

Materials Needed:

  • Pencils & crayons/colored pencils/markers
  • Large ball to represent sun
  • Small ball to represent earth with a sticker on the northern hemisphere to represent where we live
  • Document camera or whiteboard
  • Flashlight if available
  • Tape
 

Printable Resources: Required Resources:

  • “The Seasons and the Sun” text (pages 21-27) (1 copy for the teacher)
  • “Exit Slips” (1 copy per student)
  • “The Seasons and the Sun Song” (1copy for teacher)
  • “The Earth’s Movements” (1 copy per student and 1 for demonstration)
  • “Seasons and the Sun Vocabulary” (1 copy per student and 1 for demonstration)
  • “Acting Out the Earth’s Movements” (1 for demonstration)
  • Cut out signs before the lesson
  •  “Revolving Around the Sun Foldable” (1 copy per student and 1 for demonstration)
Optional Teacher Resources:
  • “Break Up Your Day” movement break ideas.

CCSS: 1-ESS1-2, 1.RI.1, 1.RI.2, 1.RI.4, 1.RI.5, 1.RI.7

Lesson Plan Description

Engaging for all readers, especially multilingual students learning English, this bundle of lessons is based on Earth Science standards and a text, “The Seasons and the Sun,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

  •  Segment 1: use context clues in order to define new vocabulary (rotate and revolve), and ask and answer questions about the topic and important details.  Interpret data from diagrams and draw and label parts of the earth and the earth’s seasons in relation to the sun
  • Segment 2: students will continue to use text dependent questions to determine key details and explain the difference between rotate and revolve by chanting and acting out – they will “see” how day and night, seasons, equinoxes, and solstices occur
  • Segment 3: Process their understanding of the concepts and create a foldable to show how the earth revolves around the sun to create the seasons
  • Exit slips: provided at the end of each lesson provide valuable information for you in determining instructional next steps.