Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Planning and Carrying out Investigations
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Sunlight warms the Earth's surface.
- Know different patterns of relative warmth of materials in sunlight and in shade (e.g., hotter, warmer, cooler, and colder)
- Materials on the Earth's surface can be investigated (e.g., dirt, sand, water) and described.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Investigate the effects of sunlight on Earth's surface.
- Observe the effects of sunlight on Earth's surface.
- Describe the effects of sunlight on Earth's surface.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Sunlight causes an observable effect on the Earth's surfaces including: water, soil, rocks, sand, grass.
Vocabulary
- Observe
- Describe
- Sunlight
- Earth
- Surface
- Evaporation
- Temperature
