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YEAR 3 - EARTH'S ROTATION
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An introduction to the Year 3 package and its links to the Australian Curriculum.
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A list of equipment needed for each activity within the PALMS 3 package. To assist you with planning and preparations.
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An introductory activity to raise student awareness about the damage that can be done my staring directly at the Sun.
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An activity to introduce students to the effects of the Sun. Students can create their own badges in this activity.
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Students explore the concept of a fair test and examine the impact of sunlight on a range of paper types in this fun activity.
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Students can update their parents about their latest findings in Science and conduct their very own investigation at home using this PALMS Parent Power activity.
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Examine the visible light spectrum with some easy to access and very spectacular equipment.
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Students design their own ways to examine if the Sun is in fact a source of light.
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Students explore UV light in an activity to support your school's 'no hat, no play' policy.
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Students examine what happened to the Christmas baubles?
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Students consolidate their learning with this literacy activity.
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Students examine concepts of subjective statments versus measured temperatures.
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Students examine techniques to improve the accuracy of their measurements.
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Students practice reading thermometers in this Mathematics based activity.
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Students make predictions about temperatures across the day and test these predictions.
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Students record their own experiences with heat from the Sun.
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Students dry wet paper towel in the Sun and the shade to compare the time it takes.
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Students begin to consider the shape of the Earth and perspective with this historically based activity.
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Through this demonstration students can see evidence that the earth is spinning.
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Students consider the many words in their vocabulary associated to time.
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During this demonstration students see how day and night occur.
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During this activity students consider a Dreamtime story regarding time.
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Through discussion, students consider the traits attributed to day and night.
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Through discussion, students consider whether some of the vocabulary we use when talking about time is misleading.
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In this quirky whole class activity students explore early concepts of time zones.
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Students quite literally get 'hands on' with time, exploring a method used by early Egyptian people.
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In this Mathematics activity students calculate fractions of minutes, hours and days.
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Students work together to create a class 'book of hours'.
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Students use graph paper to assist in their understanding of the relative sizes of units of time.
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Students take their investigation of time zones one step further.
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This will really get you thinking!
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Students will really enjoy producing and changing shadows.
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In this extension activity students graph the progression of shadows.
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This activity ties together Science, Art and History.
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Students create their own nodal sundials.
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Students create their own t bar sundials and examine their use in history.
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Those students that are up for a challenge can create their own gnomon sundial to complete their collection.
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This PALMS Parent Power activity allows students to share their learnings at home and to explore time with their family.
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This activity asks students to consider if perspective impacts how something is seen.
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This activity allows students to consider the scale of the Sun, Moon and Earth while creating a model.
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Students model rotation and orbit.
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This poster activity asks students to consider historical context and the importance of the Sun, Earth or Moon.