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Sun

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Why Does the Sun Look Small?

Students measure a paper plate, then step back five steps and measure it again, to understand why the sun looks smaller…

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Space and Astronomy

Sun

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Me and My Shadow: Tracking Earth's Motion

Using their own shadows and the shadow of a paper child on a globe, students learn through a simulation how the sun's…

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Science

Earth

Sun

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Explore Activity: Exploring Surface Temperatures

Students compare surface temperatures and make inferences about light and dark surfaces, sunlight, and temperature.…

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Science

Sun

Heat

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Explore Activity: Exploring Size and Distance of Earth and Sun

Students measure the diameter of a model of Earth (a peppercorn) and a model sun (a 33-cm circle of poster board) and…

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Earth

Sun

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Investigate Activity: Observing Shadows Caused by Sunlight

Students use a piece of string and a metric ruler to measure the length of shadows made from the sun at different times…

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Sun

Physics

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How Are Shadows Made?

Students draw shadows and identify their source.

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Sun

Earth Science

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How Do Shadows Change?

Students write about shadows at different times of the day.

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Sun

Earth Science

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ACTIVITIES

Science Skill: Experimenting with Shadows

Students write a hypothesis and design an experiment to test it.

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Sun

Space and Astronomy

Science

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Transits Activity

Using reference materials, students will research what transit means in astronomy and draw the transit of Mercury and…

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Space and Astronomy

Sun

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Sunspot Activity

Connect math and science with this graphing activity about sunspots. Students will use the data to make a bar graph,…

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Science

Sun

Mathematics

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Activity: Solar Energy

Explore uses of solar energy by reading the passage in this physics printable. Students will refer to the passage and…

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Science

Sun

Earth Science

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Activity: Solar Heating

Refer to the diagram of a solar heating system in this printable to teach students about alternative energy. Students…

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Science

Sun

Energy and Matter

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Solar Energy

Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on a solar energy experiment.

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Science

Sun

Earth Science

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The Sun Vocabulary

Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on facts about the sun.

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Language Arts and Writing

Sun

Vocabulary

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Where Do We Get Our Light?

Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on the sun as a source of light.

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Science

Sun

Earth Science

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How Can We Describe the Sun?

Develop student science skills with an activity that focuses on the characteristics of the sun.

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Language Arts and Writing

Visual Arts

Art, Music and Drama

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