ED 447 Teacher: Renee Mendieta Classroom Teacher: Riley Alderton School: Riverview Grade Level: Fourth Number of Students:

27 Content Area: Science Lesson Duration: 45 minutes Planning and Teaching = 50 points Planning 1. Content Objective: After a Nepalese mother gives a thirty minute presentation on the Hindu sunrise/sunset, students will use the current astronomical sunrise/sunset times to calculate the Hindu sunrise/sunset. 2. Colorado State Content Standards: Standard 3: Earth Systems Science Concepts and Skills: Earth is part of the solar system, which includes the Sun, Moon, and other bodies that orbit the Sun in predictable patterns that lead to observable paths of objects in the sky as seen from Earth. Evidence Outcomes: c. Gather, analyze, and interpret data about the sunrise and sunset, and moon movements and phases. 3. Learning Target: To recognize that other cultures calculate the sunrise and sunset differently and value them for different reasons. 4. Key Vocabulary: Hindu, Nepal, astronomical, sunrise, sunset, refraction, diameter, neutralize 5. Essential Questions: Why is it important to record the sunrise and sunset times? How is this information helpful to us? How might it be helpful to other cultures around the world? 6. Materials: Whiteboard, projector, newspapers (electronic if enough computers are available for each student to have their own or partner up), and science notebooks 7. Anticipatory Set: The teacher will ask students to recall the various places they might access the sunrise and sunset times. The teacher will then tell the students that, later in the lesson, they will have an opportunity to find the sunrise and sunset times in the newspaper. Teaching 8. Input: A Nepalese mother will give a thirty-minute presentation on what the Hindu sunrise/sunset it, how it is traditionally used, and how it is calculated. 9. Modeling: After the presentation, the teacher will remind the students how to find the sunrise and sunset in the daily newspaper (either electronically or with a hard copy). The teacher will then show the students the formula for calculating the Hindu sunrise and sunset by using the astronomical sunrise and sunset found in the newspaper. The teacher may plug the numbers into the equation to help the students along. The teacher may use an arbitrary time to demonstrate the calculation. 10. Checking for understanding: The teacher may simply use a fist-five checking for understanding strategy, where a fist indicates that more information is needed and a five indicates complete understanding of the objective. Additionally, the teacher may prompt the students with an arbitrary time and have students calculate the Hindu sunrise and/or sunset before researching the astronomical sunrise/sunset of the day. 11. Guided Practice: After being strategically grouped into pairs, the students will first find the astronomical sunrise/sunset in the daily newspaper. Afterward, the students will calculate the Hindu sunrise/sunset and record the new times in their science notebooks.

12. Assessment: The students should have 1) successfully recorded the sunrise/sunset from the daily newspaper 2) correctly recorded the formula for the Hindu sunrise/sunset and 3) correctly calculated the Hindu sunrise/sunset. 13. Closure: The teacher will facilitate a group discussion about the differences between a Hindu sunrise/sunset and an astronomical sunrise/sunset. Students should recognize that a Hindu sunrise and sunset does not include refraction when recording the times. 14. Independent practice: To complete the lesson, students will read a passage that discusses the religious/astrological purposes of the Hindu sunrise/sunset. Students will summarize the passage in their writing journals. Students should also reflect on how the astronomical sunrise/sunset affect their own daily routines.