Grade

Description

PRE-K

Day/Night:

-         Compare day/night activities

-         Sun/Moon-Moon's changes cycles

KG

Standard 7: The student understands essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the Earth’s place in it.

7.1 Knows the Moon appears to change shape

Standard 15: The student understands energy types, sources, and conversions and their relationship to heat and temperature.

15.1 Knows that the Sun supplies heat and light to the Earth

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Standard 5: The student understands basic features of the earth.

5.1 Knows that the earth is the only body in our solar system that appears able to support life

5.2 Knows that because of the tilt of the earth’s axis, sunlight and, hence, heat fall more intensely on one part or another of the earth during its one-year revolution around the sun; the difference in heating of the earth’s surface produces the planet’s seasons and weather patterns

5.4 Knows that clouds, which are formed by the condensation of water vapor, affect weather and climate; some do so by reflecting much of the sunlight that reaches the earth from sun; others hold heat energy emitted from the earth’s surface

Standard 7: The student understands essential ideas about the composition and structure of the universe and the earth’s place in it.

7.1 Knows that nine planets of differing sizes and surface features and with differing compositions move around the sun in nearly circular orbits; some planets have a variety of moons and rings of particles orbiting around them

7.2 Knows that the sun is a medium sized star, located at the edge of a disk-shaped galaxy, part of which can be seen on a clear night as a glowing band of light

7.3 Knows that the moon’s orbit around the earth once in some 28 days changes how much of the moon is lighted by the sun and how much of that part can be seen from earth, resulting in the phases of the moon

7.4 Knows that the universe contains many billions of galaxies, each containing many billions of stars

7.5 Knows that light travels from the sun to the earth in a few minutes, from the next nearest star in four years, and from very distant stars in several billion years; the distance light travels in a few years would take the fastest rocket thousands of years to travel

7.6 Knows that we live on a fairly small planet, the third from the sun in one of the systems of planets definitely known to exist

7.7 Knows that the sun’s gravitational pull keeps the earth and other planets in their orbits, just as the gravitational pull of planets keeps their moons in orbit around them

Standard 15: The student understands energy types, sources and conversions, and their relationship to heat and temperature.

15.1 Knows that the sun is a major source of energy for changes on the earth’s surface; the sun’s energy arrives as light with a range of wavelengths consisting mainly of visible light with significant amounts of infrared and ultraviolet radiation

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Standard 5: The student understands basic features of the earth.

5.2 Knows that the sun is the major source of energy for phenomena on the earth’s surface, such as winds, ocean currents, the water cycle and the growth of plants