Name: Maryam Ahmad

Grade Level: Grade 1

Central Focus What causes day and night?

ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System

Standard ■ Seasonal patterns of sunrise and sunset can be observed, described, and
predicted . (1-ESS1-2)

Students will be able to explain the patterns of sunrise and sunset by

Learning creating a sundial.
Objective

● Powerpoint
● Video
Materials
● Paper Plate, Pencil, Scissors, Glue, Sundial Face, Instructions for
the Back of Sundial, Straws, Crayons

The purpose of this lesson is so that students can understand that the reason
Teaching Point
why we have daytime and nighttime is because the earth is always spinning
around the sun.
● Introduce Powerpoint about Daytime and Nighttime
○ Turn and Talk (What do we see in the sky when it’s daytime?
How about nightitme?)
○ Go over diagram of Earth and explain how the Earth spins,
how long it takes, and the Earth’s axis & North + South
Pole
○ Holding Hands Activity (one person is the sun, another
person is the Earth, and they spin to demonstrate the Earth
Instruction
rotating)
○ Show Daytime & Nighttime Video (Class Discussion –
What causes day and night?)
○ Go over sun activity and day + night diagram
● Introduce what Sundials are and their history
● Move onto Sundial Activity
● Come back together and share Sundials and review vocabulary
● Introduce the Exit Ticket and homework assignment
 Sundial Activity:

Learning Task
 Once everyone is done, choose students to show the sundial they worked
Closing / on.
Debrief
Go over what the sundial shows and is used for.

1. Exit Slip:

Assessments
 2. Homework:

Differentiation ELL Students: Pictures with definitions/ translations.

Earth: The planet in which we live.

Sun: A star in our sky that gives us light
Academic Day: When everyone (mostly) is awake and the sun is out.
Language Night: When everyone (mostly) is sleeping and we can’t see the sun.
Sunrise: Time of day when the sun rises and the night turns to day.
Sunset: Time of day when the sun lowers and day turns to night.