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- The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade
- In this set of lessons for a third-grade curriculum unit on the Earth and Sun, students progress from observing the Sun's path through the daytime sky to understanding that the Sun's apparent motion is actually a result of Earth's rotation about an axis.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- The Earth rotates through days
- The students will be a part of a model showing how the Earth's rotation creates what we see as a sunrise and sunset every twenty-four hours.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Science)
- By Christine Shatto.
- The spinning Earth: Your world is tilted
- In The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade, page 11
- In this lesson, students will learn that Earth's axis is not perpendicular to the Sun. They will investigate the effects the tilt in the axis has on the length of days and nights — as well as on the climate — at various latitudes in the two hemispheres.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Science)
- By Ronen Plesser and John Heffernan.
