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Science / Year 3 / Science Understanding / Earth and space sciences

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Curriculum content descriptions

Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day (ACSSU048)

Elaborations
  • recognising the sun as a source of light
  • constructing sundials and investigating how they work
  • describing timescales for the rotation of the Earth
  • modelling the relative sizes and movement of the sun, Earth and moon
General capabilities
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Day,  Night,  Earth rotation

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Light and shadows

  • TLF-IDL756

Look at how a tree makes a shadow during a sunny day. Notice that objects always casts shadows that face away from the Sun. Examine how the shape and position of a shadow is related to the time of day and position of the Sun. Explore the shadows cast by different objects such as a bike, an umbrella and a child. Position ...

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Pushing and pulling

  • TLF-IDL700

Move animals from a boat to their new home in a zoo. Put them on a cart, then use monkeys to push or pull them up a hill. Use the minimum amount of force needed to move each animal. For example, use a single monkey to push a pelican or use three monkeys to pull a zebra. This learning object is a combination of three objects ...

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Light and shadows: casting shadows

  • TLF-IDL1126

Look at how a tree makes a shadow during a sunny day. Notice that objects always casts shadows that face away from the Sun. Examine how the shape and position of a shadow is related to the time of day and position of the Sun. Explore the shadows cast by different objects such as a bike, an umbrella and a child. Position ...

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Teacher resource

Night and day

  • TLF-IDM013137

This is a unit of inquiry consisting of 12 learning sequences for year 3 in the English for the Australian Curriculum resource. Each learning sequence contains a series of resources, suggested activities to carry out with students and a post-activity reflection. The primary focus of this unit of work is a literature study ...

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Light and shadows: matching shadows

  • TLF-IDL1127

Look at how a tree makes a shadow during a sunny day. Notice that objects always casts shadows that face away from the Sun. Examine how the shape and position of a shadow is related to the time of day and position of the Sun. Match the shadows cast by different objects such as a bike, an umbrella and a child. Complete pictures ...

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Assessment resource

Light and shadows: assessment

  • TLF-IDL9838

Test your understanding of shadows. Complete 12 tasks about how shadows change during the day. For example, match the shadow cast by a tree to the position of the Sun. View and print a report on your work.

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NASA: Eyes Eclipse 2017

  • TLF-IDM021673

This interactive 3D simulation of the total eclipse of August 21st, 2017 enables users to navigate to different locations to watch a simulation of what the eclipse would look like from that area from start to finish. The simulation is available as a web and desktop applications suitable for most devices.

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Looking to the Moon

  • TLF-IDS8302

Use these tasks and resources to investigate how the Earth rotates and how its rotation affects what we see in the sky, in particular the views of the moon. Students explore the relative position and rotation of the moon to the Earth and use this to investigate why we only see one side of the moon.

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Earth rotation: night and day

  • TLF-IDL696

Watch an animation of the Earth rotating in space showing day and night, the equinox where locations on Earth experience close to equal hours of daytime and night-time (12 hours) and views of the Earth from above the North and South Poles. Turn an animated model of the Earth to explore how rotation is related to night and ...

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Earth rotation: night and day [ESL]

  • TLF-IDL10261

Watch an animation of the Earth rotating in space showing day and night, the equinox where locations on Earth experience close to equal hours of daytime and night-time (12 hours) and views of the Earth from above the North and South Poles. Turn an animated model of the Earth to explore how rotation is related to night and ...

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An ornithopter

  • TLF-IDR2094

This is a model of an ornithopter (a machine that flies by flapping its wings). It is powered by a rotary engine using compressed air. The model was designed by Lawrence Hargrave in about 1889.

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Star trails above The Pinnacles, facing south

  • TLF-IDR9828

This is a long-exposure night-time photograph taken at The Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia, facing due south. Concentric arcs of star trails made by the long exposure can be seen in the sky, centred on the south celestial pole. A meteor trail is also visible on the left.

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