Birthdays Make the World Go Round!
We all have birthdays. Our picture perfect authors show us how to connect the annual revolution of our planet around the Sun to a delightful story about birthdays and a cake. Students then... See More
We all have birthdays. Our picture perfect authors show us how to connect the annual revolution of our planet around the Sun to a delightful story about birthdays and a cake. Students then learn about different times of the year as they experience the most and the least amounts of sunlight each day. A 5 E lesson is provided for use with K-2 students, and another lesson is provided for 3-5 grade students. In the lesson for the older students, there is a graphing component. Students graph length of day data for their birthdays; then they do it for another location on Earth farther north from where they live. Many connections are made to the common core standards as students receive some instruction on basic earth-sun relationships.