{"id":1780,"date":"2009-09-18T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1780"},"modified":"2009-09-18T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T21:29:44","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-day-and-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/18\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-what-makes-day-and-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children’s Literature: What Makes Day and Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What Makes Day and Night<\/a> is a Stage 2 Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out Science book written by Franklyn M. Branley and illustrated by Arthur Dorros.<\/p>\n

“The earth is always turning.\u00a0 It never stops.\u00a0 Round and round it goes.\u00a0 And it goes very fast.\u00a0 About 1000 miles an hour.\u00a0 As the earth turns we are always moving from day to night.\u00a0 And from night to day.”<\/p>\n

“If you were on the moon, you would also have a day and night.\u00a0 But the moon spins very slowly, so days and nights are long.\u00a0 Places on the moon have two weeks of daylight and then two weeks of darkness.”<\/p>\n

What Makes Day and Night<\/em> is a great book that emphasizes the fact that day and night are caused by the rotation of the earth.\u00a0 The reader is shown some nice diagrams that illustrate this fact and there is a suggestion for students to do an experiment modeling night and day with a lamp.\u00a0 Along with simple text, the illustrations in What Makes Day and Night<\/em> are nicely done and provide useful explanations for the topic.\u00a0 The last page of the book provides additional information and activity ideas for students to do that further discuss the topic of day and night and the earth’s rotation.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections:<\/strong>
\nWhat Makes Day and Night obviously lends itself to discussion of day and night.\u00a0 It does a great job discussing the rotation of the earth and includes many illustrations of the earth as it looks from space.\u00a0 In Virginia, this topic is covered in the first grade and can be found in the Science Standards of Learning 1.6.<\/p>\n

Additional Resources:
\n<\/strong>Day and Night Lesson Plan<\/a>: This lesson plan includes a two day unit discussing the rotation of the earth and day and night with students.\u00a0 This lesson plan utilizes What Makes Day and Night<\/em> to introduce the topic and has students perform an activity from the book in which they model day and night using a lamp.\u00a0 A worksheet is also available for this lesson.<\/p>\n

Why do we have night?<\/a>: This is a hands on lesson, using food to model the earth.\u00a0 Students will work in small groups to learn about the earth’s rotation and night and day.<\/p>\n

NASA Lesson Plan<\/a>:\u00a0 This lesson plan is nice because it is broken into two sections – a lesson for kindergarten and an extended lesson for first and second graders.<\/p>\n

Rotating Earth<\/a>: This animated earth goes from day to night and back again.\u00a0 Students have the ability to pause the animation to look at different parts of the earth.<\/p>\n

Book Information:<\/strong>
\nBook: What Makes Day and Night
\nAuthor: Franklyn M. Branley
\nIllustrator: Arthur Dorros
\nPublisher: Collins
\nPublication Date: 1986
\nPages: 32
\nGrade Range: K-3
\nISBN-10:\u00a0 0064450503
\nISBN-13: 978-0064450508<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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