WORKSHEETS
Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on facts about the sun.
Students measure a paper plate, then step back five steps and measure it again, to understand why the sun looks smaller…
LESSON PLANS
Using their own shadows and the shadow of a paper child on a globe, students learn through a simulation how the sun's…
Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on a solar energy experiment.
Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on the sun as a source of light.
Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on the characteristics of the sun.
Using reference materials, students will research what transit means in astronomy and draw the transit of Mercury and…
Connect math and science with this graphing activity about sunspots. Students will use the data to make a bar graph,…
Explore uses of solar energy by reading the passage in this physics printable. Students will refer to the passage and…
Refer to the diagram of a solar heating system in this printable to teach students about alternative energy. Students…
Students compare surface temperatures and make inferences about light and dark surfaces, sunlight, and temperature.…
Students measure the diameter of a model of Earth (a peppercorn) and a model sun (a 33-cm circle of poster board) and…
Students use a piece of string and a metric ruler to measure the length of shadows made from the sun at different times…
Students draw shadows and identify their source.
Students write about shadows at different times of the day.
ACTIVITIES
Students write a hypothesis and design an experiment to test it.