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The Moon and Stars at Night

  • Grade 1
  • Science
  • 56 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-SC-15

A row of moon shapes builds up in a night sky: a crescent, a half moon, a full moon and thinner shapes again over about a month, and then dim discs show that the moon is always round. Then the stars appear, and one grows into a sun and shrinks back to show that stars are suns that look tiny because they are so far away.

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The question this lesson answers

What can we see in the night sky?

We can often see the moon.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What can we see in the night sky?

We can often see the moon.

Night by night, the moon seems to change shape.

This thin shape is called a crescent.

A few nights later, we see a half moon.

About a week later, we see a full moon.

Then it looks thinner again, night by night.

All of this takes about a month.

But the moon is really always round.

We can also see many stars.

Each star is a sun, like our sun.

Stars look tiny because they are so far away.

The moon seems to change shape, and stars are faraway suns.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

Science, Earth science: common objects in the skyBC1-SC-15

Previous: Why the Sun seems to move: sunrise and sunsetNext: The Four Seasons: How the Weather Changes

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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