Day and Night Integrated Unit

1. Lesson Sequencing

1.1. Lesson 1: Day and Night Sky

1.2. Lesson 2: Exploring the Day and Night Sky

1.3. Lesson 3: The Day's Sun

1.4. Lesson 4: Phases of the Moon

1.5. Lesson 5: All in a Day Informational Writing

2. Resources

2.1. Document camera, Sun and Moon books, school provided educational web sites, technology lab with computers for all students, overhead projector, and AV2 books with related internet resources.

3. Objectives

3.1. explore prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing

3.1.1. Prerequisites

3.2. analyze time patterns and objects (sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky

3.2.1. Task

3.2.2. Prerequisites

3.3. draw pictures and/or use letters and phonetically spelled words to write about experiences, stories, people, objects and events

4. Big Picture Guiding Questions

4.1. What causes day and night?

4.2. How can we identify the day and night sky?

4.3. How does the sky change in 24 hours?

4.4. What causes the sky to change in 24 hours?

4.5. What is the purpose of the sun?

4.6. What are the phases of the moon?

5. New node

6. New node