Unit 7L: The solar system and beyond Section 5: d. How do we see the Sun and Moon?
Objectives
Children should learn:
to write about a physical phenomenon from a personal point of view
to develop ideas into continuous text
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Use a video to show a solar eclipse and ask pupils to write about what it would be like to experience this event, describing the stages of the eclipse with accompanying pictures,
eg in the style of a news report. Alternatively, ask pupils to find out or imagine how people in the past have interpreted the events of an eclipse.
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