How do live lessons work?
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How Do I Use the Lesson Plans?
Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
Can I show videos in live classes?
Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.
Videos should have no advertisements or logos and should be viewed by you before showing them to the students to ensure no offensive or questionable content is included.
The video should make up only a small portion of the live class.
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Class Summary
Students will examine the characteristics of day and night sky. They will learn how day changes to night in a 24 hour cycle. They will focus on the simple changes from night to day and day to night. This lesson will introduce the concept of measuring time with a clock.
Lesson Slide
Vocabulary Words
- Rotating – Turning around a central point
- Constantly – always or without stopping.
- Horizon – the line where the sky meets the ground.
Main Teaching Points
- When the sun shines during the day, it is called daylight.
- When the moon shines during the night, it is called moonlight
- Earth spins as it moves around the sun. The Earth’s spin gives us day and night.
- It takes the earth 24 hours to spin all the way around and back to the start.
- There are 24 hours in a day. We use a clock to keep track of hours passing.
- The day to night transition is a cycle, a pattern that repeats every day.
- When the sun comes up, it is called a sunrise.
- When the sun sets, it’s called a sunset.
- When the sun is high and in the middle of the sky, it’s called afternoon.
- We do different things at different times of the day.
Discussion Questions
- Can you name some objects we’d see in the night sky?
- Can you name some objects we’d see in the day sky?
- What do we call the light that we see in the day time?
- How are day and night similar? How are they different?
- What colors might we see in a sunset?
- Is it day or night when you are sleeping?
- When do you see the moon? The Sun? The Clouds? The Sun?
- What’s something we can use to measure time passing?
- How many hours does it take for the earth to spin all the way around?
In-Class Activities
- Act it out: Have students act out an activity that they do at night, or during the day or both. (Going to sleep, waking up, get dressed, eating breakfast, going to school, playing with friends, brushing teeth. ) Discuss with other student when those things happen at what times of day.