Every year, we read Diary of Anne Frank and Night. Since both of these novels focus on World War 2 and Hitler's Germany, I think that it would be beneficial to pair images of things like the Bataan Death March and the Japanese Internment Camps with activities similar to "Circle of Viewpoints" in order to build a stronger global context.

This article describes common misconceptions held by elementary students about the cause of day and night and seasons. The article provides ideas for formative assessment, teaching strategies, and the National Science Education Standards.

This activity allows pupils to learn the difference between diurnal and nocturnal animals, understand that when it is day here, it is night on the other side of the world, and that it is light when the Sun comes up and it is dark when the Sun goes down. At the end, pupils build a model of the Earth and can experiment with day and night.

Packet of activities to assist in explaining solar and lunar eclipses, night and day, the four seasons and much more.

This course explores how our views of Jewish history have been formed and how this history can explain the survival of the Jews as an ethnic/religious group into the present day. Special attention is given to the partial and fragmentary nature of our information about the past, and the difficulties inherent in decoding statements about the past that were written with a religious agenda in mind. It also considers complex events in Jewish history -- from early history as portrayed in the Bible to recent history, including the Holocaust.

This issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, highlights ways to teach about the extremes in day and night and seasons in the Arctic and Antarctica. The targeted literacy skill is cause/effect relationships. Art and poetry are integrated through a study of the aurora.

This article assembles free resources from the Polar Patterns: Day, Night, and Seasons issue of the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears cyberzine into a unit outline based on the 5E learning cycle framework. Outlines are provided for Grades K-2 and 3-5.

This article highlights children's literature about day and night, seasons, the aurora, and cause and effect for use in the elementary classroom.

Learn how light plays an important role in what you see and don't see in space.  Engage in fun activities learning about light pollution and how the Sun, Earth and Moon interact with one another.  Finally we will incorporate the other planets in our solar sytem and learn how they all move about one another in space.

In this activity, students discuss the notion of time and how time can be measured. They build an hourglass to measure time and test it. This activity will allow students to have a better understanding of time and the instruments that can be used to measure it.

Poster showing a group of soldiers approaching a warmly lit YMCA facility, through the snow, at night. No. 4201. Title from item.

The students will review the verbs they have learned so far, as well as the days of the week, the time of day, and the hours of the day. Then, they will ask and answer questions in pairs about simple daily schedules. Finally, as a group, they will describe what they do on the weekends.

A simple presentation will introduce the students to a couple individuals’ simplified schedule. The presentation reviews the times of day and what activities someone would do throughout the day. The students will then build a small schedule for a character and practice presenting their schedule. At the end of the activity, students will talk about their own schedules.