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Science · Grade 1

Patterns in the Sky

The sky follows patterns we can predict. Learners track the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, watch the moon's shape change over about a month, explain why stars are visible at night but not in the day, and read a year of daylight data to discover that summer days have more hours of daylight than winter days.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 60 minutes
  • Sky patterns check: 7 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, type a number, put in order, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Describe and predict the sun's daily pattern: it rises in the east, moves across the sky and sets in the west.
  • Describe the pattern of the moon's changing shape over about a month, and explain why stars are seen at night but not during the day.
  • Use data to compare the hours of daylight at different times of the year.

Lessons

  1. The sun's daily path 4 steps2 practiceabout 18 min
  2. The moon and the stars 6 steps3 practiceabout 21 min
  3. Daylight through the year 6 steps3 practiceabout 21 min
  4. Sky patterns check 7 questions at the end

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