Teacher’s Name: Miss Ambrosio Science Domain
Grade Level: 1st grade ESS
Time Allotment: 45 minutes
PART I: Preparation & Pre-planning for Teaching
Content
Performance Expectation (Learning Standards: 1-ESS1-1
Scientific and Engineering Practices: Asking questions & defining problems. This method of teaching involves students developing
questions, making observations, and conducting research to answer those questions.
Disciplinary Core Ideas: The goal is to guide their knowledge toward a more scientifically based and coherent view of the natural
sciences.
Crosscutting Concepts: Stability and change of systems.
Student Learning Outcome (Objectives)
By the end of the lesson students should have a better understanding of patterns regarding the sun, moon, and stars. They should be
able to make observations and determine the proper patterns.
Science Background
By observing the Sun, Moon, and stars, we can predict patterns like: the Sun rising in the east and setting in the west each day,
the Moon going through phases in a predictable cycle, and stars only being visible at night, with specific constellations appearing
in different seasons; all of these patterns are based on the Earth's rotation and its orbit around the Sun. Examples of patterns
could include that “the sun and moon appear to rise in one part of the sky, move across the sky, and set; and stars other than
our sun are visible at night but not during the day.”
Vocabulary
Sun: a star at the center of our solar system
Moon: a naturally-formed body that orbits a planet
Stars: a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night
Earth: the planet we live on, the third planet from the Sun, and the only known place in the universe to support life
Phases: a step or part in a series of events or actions
List of Materials/Resources Needed
Teacher: A large piece of poster paper and a marker.
Students: sticky notes (1 per student) and a pencil.
PART II: Teaching All Learners
5E Learning Cycle Guiding Questions
1. Engage (10mins): The teacher will start the lesson by showing the video posted Every morning Sam looks
below to students. The teacher will then ask the guided question provided and hand out of her bedroom
out 1 sticky note to each student and tell them to write why they believe Sam can’t window and sees the sun.
see the sun from her bedroom window after dinner. After dinner she looks out
of her bedroom window
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwB8sjVc7I and can't see the sun even
though it is still light out.
Why can’t Sam see the
sun from her bedroom
window after dinner?
2. Explore (5mins): The teacher will then ask the students to work and What are some examples
communicate in small groups of 3-4 to answer the question provided. of patterns in the sky?
3. Explain (10mins): The teacher will next ask the students to go back to their seats Why did you come to this
and ask for volunteers to raise their hand and explain their answers. During this conclusion?
time the teacher can answer any questions the students may have. The students What lead you to believe
will then come up one by one and put their sticky notes on the poster paper in the this?
front of the classroom.
4. Elaborate /Extent (10mins) The teacher will go through the students sticky notes How did you get this
and explain the answer so students can further understand the lesson. answer?
5. Evaluation (Summative Assessment) (10mins): The teacher will then hand out a What are some shapes
short 2 questions quiz to wrap the lesson up that the students will work on that moon makes during
independently. its phases?
What time of the day can
you see stars in this sky?
PART III: References and Appendix
December 1, 2024. New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards.
https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/p-12-science-learning-standards.pdf
(2024). Skills available for New York first-grade science standards.
https://www.ixl.com/standards/new-york/science/grade-1
