Science 3/4

Night and day

Week 1
School: Warrnambool west
Year level: 3/4
Pre service teacher focus2.3 Curriculum
Assessment and reporting
Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning
sequences and lesson plans.
Lesson focus
The focus of the engage stage is to pick the knowledge out of the
childrens brains, getting the students to be able to re think about what
they know about day and night and how it has a been portrayed to them.
It will involve the use of past knowledge of students, if no past knowledge
is seen students will be given probing questions.
Assessment focus
The assessment in this lesson will be looked upon as diagnostic as it will
be what the students already know and what they understand. Students
will be needed to talk about day and night and why it happens.
Key lesson outcomes
Science

Literacy

Students will be able to represent

their current understanding as
they:

Students will be able to:

describe the difference between

night and day
describe the cause of night
describe the movements of the
Sun, Earth and Moon to cause

contribute to discussions about

night and day
create an annotated drawing to
show the movements of the Sun,
Earth and Moon to cause night and
day
describe the purpose and features

night and day.

of an annotated drawing
contribute to the beginning of a
word wall.

Success criteria:
Students will be able to understand how day and night is caused.
Students will able to use correct term with talking about day and night.

AusVELS:
Strand

Substrand

Code

Year 3 content
descriptions

Lesso
ns

Science
Understandin
g

Earth and
space
sciences

ACSSU0
48

Earths rotation on its

axis causes regular
changes, including night
and day

0-5 mins
Introduce the topic of night and day.
5- 10 mins
Questioning / Talking about what they know
Eg
What do you know about night and day?
Where does the sun go?
Why do we have a night?
What can you tell me about the night and day?

10- 25 mins
Getting students to fill in their first page in their work book / journals. The
first page will be a t page with heading on one side as day and the other
side as night. This will be used as a diagnostic assessment and will be
used as one at the end of the unit.

25-30 mins
Questioning students again about the earth spin
Where does the sun go at night?
Where does the moon go?
Does any one know about the moon?
Does the moon glow?
Is the sun close?
30-45 mins
Students will be able to draw what happens to the sun and what
happened to the moon at night. Students can do this on the front of their
books or their second page from the t work.
45-55mins
Share time:
Students can share what they know about the night and some can share
about what they know about the day. Some may be able to share their
pictures of the moon or sun display.

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