WORKSHEETS
Learn all about the Sun! After reading about our nearest star, students will label the parts of the Sun. They will also…
REFERENCE
Distribute an article that explains why the first day of autumn in the Southern hemisphere occurs in March
An article listing the dates and places of eclipses occurring between 2005 and 2015.
Students can explore the intensity of the sun. Use this printable following Shifting Sun Part I.
The Arctic Circle spends half the year in darkness and half the year in light, as students learn in this printable.
Students explore using the sun as a directional source -- a natural compass.
Help students learn about the process by which energy from the sun becomes electrical energy with this printable about…
Students compare surface temperatures and make inferences about light and dark surfaces, sunlight, and temperature.…
Suggest a family activity to parents that includes home projects and vocabulary words related to the sun, planets, and…
Distribute a printable set of vocabulary words related to the sun, moon, and planets.
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 use plastic-foam balls and flashlights to model how sunlight reaches different parts of the earth at different…
Ask students to interpret how radiation from the sun affects or enables the pictured activity with this printable…
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.
Students draw pictures to show the position of the sun in the morning and at noon.
Students use a viewer and then illustrate what they saw in the daytime sky.
