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1st grade · Science · Unit 3 of 7

Sky & Seasons

Day, night and the seasons

What your child practices

Day and night, the sun, moon and stars (the moon reflects sunlight), and the order of the seasons.

Alaska content standards learning standard: 1-ESS1-1; 1-ESS1-2 · patterns of the sun, moon and stars, and daylight through the year

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The sun comes up in the morning and goes down in the evening.
  2. The seasons go spring, summer, fall, winter.
  3. Leaves change color and fall in fall.

Example: Which season comes after winter? Spring, summer, fall, winter… then spring again. Answer: spring

Sky & Seasons in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 3 of 7 in 1st grade Science, after Light & Sound and before Parents & Babies.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Put the seasons in order. Start with spring.

    • 🌷spring
    • ❄️winter
    • 🍂fall
    • ☀️summer

  2. Question 2

    When do we usually see the sun in the sky?

    • 🌃in the middle of the night
    • ☀️in the daytime

  3. Question 3

    Winter or summer? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: ❄️ winter · ☀️ summer

    • 🏊swimming outside
    • 🩳shorts
    • ⛸️skating on a pond
    • 🕶️sunglasses
    • 🧤mittens
    • ⛄snowman

  4. Question 4

    What do we call a round, bright moon?

    • 🌓half moon
    • 🌑new moon
    • 🌕full moon

  5. Question 5

    Which season comes after winter?

    • ☀️summer
    • 🍂fall
    • 🌷spring

  6. Question 6

    When can we see lots of stars?

    • 🌅on a sunny morning
    • 🌃on a clear, dark night
    • 🥪at lunchtime

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