KS3 - Day and Night, Seasons and Years.

In this lesson students will work towards the objective: use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky. They will first learn about how our understanding of day and night has changed over time before understanding the science behind the suns ‘apparent’ movement across the sky. They will also learn how sundials work before explaining what they have learnt on the activity sheet. They will then learn about the seasons and the science behind the concentration of the sun’s energy on the Earth’s surface. They will be taught how this links to time zones and again will explain their understanding through the activity sheet. The engaging presentation- with links to online video clips and the activity sheets are all provided. A knowledge organiser for Earth & Space is also included. This lesson is intended for Year 5 students but can easily be modified for all KS2 and KS3 students. This lesson is 1/6 lessons on Earth & Space. To view the other lessons, please visit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/ResourcesForYou/Primary science Leave a review for this resource and send a copy of your receipt to resourcesforyou100@outlook.com to receive a FREE single resource of your choice!

Knowledge organiser designed to be printed in A3, however smaller scales (A4) can be used. The resource is constructed to be used for class work, independent/group learning through the sign-pointed references to textbooks, revision guides and web sites. The page numbers stated in each box can be easily adjusted to other reading/research materials. The scaffolded work starts with day and night, leap years, seasons, why summers are hotter than winter and ends with past paper questions. Embedded QR codes take the student to appropriate revision sites (YouTube and BBC Bitesize). Mark scheme is included for all answers.

Day and Night - Year 5 In this science teaching resource pupils discover why the Earth has day and night and why it appears that the Sun moves across the sky covering the curriculum objectives of the Year 5 science programme of study (Earth and space). Content includes: An explanation of the rotation of the Earth An explanation of why the rotation of the Earth causes day and night A suggested science activity to illustrate the causes of day and night An explanation of how the rotation of the Earth causes the sun to appear to move across the sky with activity worksheet A link to an explanatory video Day and night quiz 1 worksheet ‘Day and Night - Year 5’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.

fill in sheet

Cards provided in inprint for children to complete two seperate activites. Children can sort ;things they do in the day’ and ‘things they do at night’ as well as a daily routine activity,

By the end of the lesson learners should be able to: Identify what causes day and night time. Describe how the Earth moves: Through rotating: Around the Sun: Explain the link between the rotation of the Earth and the effect on days.

powerpoint looking at why we have day and night

Images of night and day with simple sentences and questions. Pictures of nocturnal animals with labels. What do we do in the daytime? Colouring sheet idea for continuous provision. Please leave a comment if you have time!

The starter activity is a glossary, matching key words to their definition. It is differentiated for higher and lower (higher have ore words) The presentation then discusses why we experience night and day. There are lots of youtube links to help visual learners. The main activity requires children to shade in a diagram and then explain why we experience night and day. Higher children have key words and need to write their own sentences Lower children fill in missing words SEN children have first letter of each missing word Please note I do not own any of the pictures or videos used in these resources.

full lesson

A complete lesson focusing on the objectives L.O - To explain how the Earth’s rotation causes day and night L.O – To learn about time zones around the world This lesson will hit the national curriculum objectives 'Using the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky. Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Prime Meridian and time zones (including day and night) Included: Plan PowerPoint Lesson resources (differentiated) Extension activity Sticker for marking (differentiated) If you like this resource, please don’t forget to leave a review :)

Speech bubbles, matching rhyming words and caption writing activities to support the book Night Monkey Day Monkey

Two lessons for the year 5 space topic on day and night/ seasons. Includes demonstrations will need football (sun) and smaller ball (earth). Includes work sheets activities and videos.

Once pupils have grasped the idea of day and night being caused by the Earths rotation, build on it with this activity introducing and explaining the concept of a timezone.

Complete Lesson

This lesson covers why we have day and night, with a variety of tasks and questions, all with solutions. This is a full lesson. Designed for the new Cambridge checkpoint specification but can also be used with UK and other curriculum.

This reading comprehension passage is about Day and Night. This passage discusses questions like: how day and night occurs. Why are there 24 hours in a day? How does length of day and night change on other planets? In our classroom, we have found that reading comprehension passages are great at engaging students. They also fit very well as introductory activities and homework. Early finishers also love these passage and questions. What is all included? ✔ Reading Passage on {dir} (PDF) ✔ 10 Open Ended Questions ✔ 6 Multiple Choice Questions ✔ 4 True/False Questions ✔ Answer Key for MCQs and True/False Get free resources, offers and discounts printablebazaar.com

Very basic ppt to be used as a starting point. I used a lot of whole class and group modelling with planets and lamps

Maths work sheets with a Day monkey and Night monkey, theme. Also a free 5 little monkey, nursery rhyme set. Included in this selection is- Counting to 5 Sorting day and night activities Sorting day and night animals Order activities as they occur throughout the day/night Identifying groups of 3 Identifying groups of 5 Matching shadows Missing numbers Create 5 frames Positional language Matching numbers to amounts Number bonds to 5 Adding 2 groups

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