Earth and space sciences The Sun and Earth Week 3 Term 4

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FB0rDsR_rc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK4a7kWb6Ro

Use a selection of warm colours to show the Hot gas released from the Sun is called a
colours in the Sun. prominence. Draw

Draw Earth as seen from space.
Our Sun is a medium hot star and has a
yellow colour.
Very hot stars are blue. Cool stars are red.
Complete the graph to show the different
temperatures where one square equals
1000degrees Celsius.

A total eclipse of the Sun is very rare.

Draw 4 stages.

Rigel Sun Betelgeuse

12,000 6,000 3,000
Blue Yellow Red
Earth and space sciences The Sun, Earth and Shadows Week 4 Term 4
What do you know about the Earth and the Sun together?
Write and draw

My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my
bed.

What do you think the poem tells us about shadows?

Predict: where the shadows will be and draw them.

Play: Shadow tag
 Earth and Space Science: Making shadows Term 4 Week 5
We are learning that the relationship between the earth and the sun causes shadows and Earths rotation on its axis causes regular
changes, including night and day.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SN1BOpLZAs
Any light source will give a shadow. We will use a torch as our light source.
Make a 3 cm high model out of plasticine. Put your model in the middle of your page on the cross.
I made a model of
Move your torch across your page from SUN RISE to SUN SET. Trace around the shadow at least four times. Take your torch over your
model. Measure the length of each of your shadows and write the length.
SUN SUN
SET RISE
X
Answer these questions-
What was the longest shadow length? ..When was the shadow the longest? ..
What was the shortest length? ..When was the shadow the shortest?
What happened to the length of the shadow as the torch moved from SUN RISE to SUN SET? What pattern did the shadows
make?..

Earth and space sciences The Earth Revolving and Rotating Week 6 Term 4
What do you know about night and day on Earth?
Write and draw

We will use a lamp and our earth globe to model the rotation and revolution of Earth.
Watch: Earths rotation and revolution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l64YwNl1wr0
& Seasons and the sun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b25g4nZTHvM

What do you know about why there are different seasons on Earth?
Write and draw

Play The Solar Game (similar to Port and Starboard)

Commands
Summer West
Autumn North
Winter East
Spring South
Rotate spin on the spot
Revolve run around the Sun
Night turn your back on the Sun
Day Face the Sun
Solar flare squat down and shield yourself
UV alert scrub your face with sunscreen
Solar eclipse get into pairs to block the sun (a moon and an Earth)
Earth and space sciences: Meteor Crater Investigation Week7 and 8 Term 4

Achievement standard: pose questions, and predict the outcomes of investigations, . collect and
present observations, suggest possible reasons fore their findings, describe how safety and fairness was
used

How can we have a science investigation on the Sun, Earth and Moon? [Think of
Goldilocks and the three bears!]
The Sun is too hot for us to use as a model for a science investigation.
The Earth is too cold but our Moon is just right for some science investigations.

Our Moon has craters. Do you know how they were formed?
We are going to make craters by dropping objects onto our Moon.

Questions we can ask about making craters.

What happens to the crater on the Moon when we change the type of soil?

What happens to the crater on the Moon when we change .

What happens to the crater on the Moon when we change .

Our class question.

What happens to the crater when we change the mass of meteor?

Our science planning

We are going to change . We are going to keep the We are going to measure our
same .. results by

The meteor Size of meteor Depth of crater

Height of drop
Depth of soil Width of crater
Soil flat
Other observations

My prediction: I think that

Draw and label what

your teams science
investigation is going to
look like.
Recording our results.

Try 1 Try 2 Try 3

Fine soil
White flour

Small rocks
sugar

Larger rocks
Split peas

Were your observations same or different to your prediction?

What made a difference to our type of craters?

What made our investigation a fair test?

How did your group and the whole class stay safe?

Use the pictures provided to make a detailed drawing of our Moon.

Use a selection of warm
colours to show the colours in
the Sun.

Draw Earth as seen from

space.

The Earth is the only planet

with an ozone layer that
protects living things from
some of the harmful rays of
the Sun.
A total eclipse of the Sun is
very rare.
Draw.

Hot gas released from the Sun

is called a prominence. Draw

Hot gas released from the Sun

is called a prominence. Draw
Our Sun is a medium hot star
and has a yellow colour.
Very hot stars are blue. Cool
stars are red.
Complete the graph to show
the different temperatures
where one square equals
1000degrees Celsius.