Dug's Beach Party

Measuring Daylight Patterns

Grades K-1

The sun appears to travel across the sky in a way that can be observed and predicted.

• Make observations (firsthand or from media) to construct an evidence-based account for natural phenomena.

• Generate and/or compare multiple solutions to a problem.

• Children recognize that patterns in the natural and human designed world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, and used as evidence.

• Students learn that events have causes that generate observable patterns. They design simple tests to gather evidence to support or refute their own ideas about causes.

• Patterns of movement of the sun, moon, and stars as seen from Earth can be observed, described, and predicted.

• A situation that people want to change or create can be approached as a problem to be solved through engineering. Such problems may have many acceptable solutions. Asking questions, making observations, and gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems. Before beginning to design a solution, it is important to clearly understand the problem.

• Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem’s solutions to other people. To design something complicated, one may need to break the problem into parts and attend to each part separately but must then bring the parts together to test the overall plan.