Science Unit

Last week we finished up our Economics unit in social studies and have moved onto our next science unit Space Systems: Stars and the Solar System. Throughout this unit students will explore the following concepts:

• The sun is a star that appears larger and brighter than other stars because it is closer. Stars range greatly in their distance from Earth.
• The gravitational force of Earth acting on an object near Earth’s surface pulls that object toward the planet’s center.
• The orbits of Earth around the sun and of the moon around Earth, together with the rotation of Earth about an axis between its North and South poles, cause observable patterns. These include day and night; daily changes in the length and direction of shadows; and different positions of the sun, moon, and stars at different times of the day, month, and year