Lessons Plans Materials & Prep

/ Big
Ideas
Unit introduction - Bill Nye worksheet
& vocabulary
- Read through Glossary & hand out
worksheet
vocabulary page
- Collect Bill Nye
- Video- 12 minutes (Slide 2)
worksheet
- Bill Nye Outer Space

1 Phases of the Moon - Bill Nye

Worksheet
- Discussion of Phases page 21-
Master #14 (Slides 37-40) - Collect gizmo
sheet
- Videos- slide 41
- Complete task – Changing Moon
(Master 16a). Organizing phases
(linear)
- Color in Phases using highlighter
(circular) on page 22
- Notes on page 16/17 (Slide 41)
- Bill Nye Moon
- Students start monitoring phases at
home
- Gizmo: Phases of the Moon

2 Stars (Constellations) - Students hand in

emit & reflect
- Emitting/ Reflecting: “Starlight, pictures
Moonlight” & “Light emitting vs
light reflecting” Notes on page one - Stars for each
(Slides 5-7). Students draw student, flashlight,
globe
emitting and reflecting pictures
- Copy star finders
- Constellations- pages 2-4 (Slides
parts. Need
9-11)
construction paper

Sky Science – Grade 6

 - Read pages 5/6. “Starry, starry
night” notes on page 7/8 (Slide
12) & video/ zodiac (Slide 13-15)
- Demo (See my lesson 4)- stars,
Earth and sun lesson
- Movement of stars notes on page
7 (Slide 16-18). Page 9 image
(Big dipper)
- Star finders- build as class. Write
“Star finders” & “Sun shines” notes
on page 8 (Slide 19)

3 Suns Power - Bill Nye Sun

- “The suns awesome powers”
notes on page 10 (Slide 22)
- Bill Nye Sun

4 Shadows - Collect Master 10

- Discuss earth’s rotation on axis &
sun rising in the east & setting in
the west
- Shadow videos (Slide 26)
- “Shadows and the Earth’s rotation”
notes on page 10 (Slide 25)
- Casting shadows task- Master 9b/
10 (pages 11-13)

5 Sun Dials
- Read notes on page 14/15
- Write “Sundail” notes on page 15
(Slide 28) & video

Phases of the moon Quiz

6 Reasons for the seasons: - Collect gizmo

Sky Science – Grade 6

 - Discuss revolution vs rotation sheet
(Slide 51-52)
- Bill Nye
- Demo with globe and flashlight
- Summer and Winter gizmo
- “Reasons for the seasons” notes
on page 16 (Slide 35)
- Read through notes on page 18-
20 (Slides 31-34)
- Bill Nye Seasons

7 Planets - Collect planet

research
- Demo with string- distance from
the sun
- Videos (Slide 46)

- Planet order (Slide 47)

- Planet research in groups –

Master 19

8 Misc. - Collect Venn

diagram
- Research two satellites Venn
diagram task page 25 (Master 22) - Bill nye worksheet
- Galaxy notes on page 17 (Slides
55-57)
- Space exploration slide 58. Bill
Nye if not done earlier
- Notes- read and highlight pages
27-30)

9 Project- life on other planets -

Optional Survival Story- Master 24a -

Sky Science – Grade 6