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Science — Grade 3
Goal 3, Objective 3.03
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Time - Light and shadow (pre-visit)
- Students examine the interplay of the earth and the sun by studying shadows. Students construct a sun clock and record shadows several times during a school day in order to use the earth and the sun to measure time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Denise Young.
- Light, camera, action! Shadows?
- This lesson will demonstrate how the position of a light source or direction of light and the time of the day will affect the shadow images that are depicted in our environment over a period of time.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Alta Allen.
- Getting an angle on light
- Students will discover that the angle of the sun can mark time and is responsible for the color we see in the sky. Students will also understand that light can be reflected and refracted.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Janet Jones.
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- Collecting the rays
- In this lesson, from Illuminations, students explore how variations in solar collectors affect the energy absorbed. They make rectangular prisms that have the same volume but different linear dimensions. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics and Science)
- Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
