StarLab Programs: Sunny Day, Starry Night
Students pretend to be constellations while watching Mr. Ben demonstrate the rotation of the Earth and its revolution around the teacher’s Sun.
Introduce your young scientists to astronomy. Learn why we have day and night, and how we know that the Earth moves. The concepts of Earth motion, stars, and constellations are explored in this interactive and exciting look at the space around our planet.
“Sunny Day, Starry Night” aligns with the following points of the Maryland State Voluntary Curriculum:
Skills and Processes
Grades K, 1, 2
- Describe what can be learned about things by just observing those things carefully and adding information by sometimes doing something to the things and noting what happens. Seek information through reading, observation, exploration, and investigations. Suggest things that you could do to find answers to questions raised by observing objects and/or phenomena. (A.1abf)
- Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others’ ideas. (B.1b)
- Ask, "How do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask them the same question…describe things as accurately as possible and compare observations with those of others (C.1a)
- Explain that a model of something is different from the real thing but can be used to learn something about the real thing. (D.3a)
Earth/Space Science
Grade K
- Observe celestial objects that are visible in the day and night sky. Identify and describe the sun, moon, and stars. Describe ways in which the daytime and nighttime skies are different. (D.1ab)
Grade 1
- Recognize that there is a relationship between the sun and the earth. Identify ways that the sun affects the earth including that the sun warms the earth and provides light. (D.2a)
Grade 2
- Observe and describe changes over time in the properties, location, and motion of celestial objects. Identify observable properties of the sun, moon, and stars. Identify the apparent visible changes in the shape of the moon. (D.1ab)