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This document provides information about the Earth, moon, and solar system for a 3rd grade science class. It explains that the solar system contains the sun and objects that orbit it, including the nine planets with Earth being the third from the sun. It describes Earth as a sphere with water, air, plants and animals. The document also discusses that Earth's rotation causes day and night and its revolution around the sun causes the seasons. It notes that the moon orbits Earth and reflects sunlight, appearing to change shapes through its phases over the course of a month.

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Earth Science 1

This document provides information about the Earth, moon, and solar system for a 3rd grade science class. It explains that the solar system contains the sun and objects that orbit it, including the nine planets with Earth being the third from the sun. It describes Earth as a sphere with water, air, plants and animals. The document also discusses that Earth's rotation causes day and night and its revolution around the sun causes the seasons. It notes that the moon orbits Earth and reflects sunlight, appearing to change shapes through its phases over the course of a month.

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Exploring Earth Science

The Earth and Moon

Third Grade

Mrs. Farrers Class

State Science Core

Travel along and we will find out where


we live in space and what we can see
in space.

Do you know
what a solar
system is?
Do you know
what is in our
solar system?

Our solar system is made up of an


enormous sun and everything that
travels around it.

We live on one
of the nine
planets in our
system. Other
small bodies
called asteroids
and comets can
be found in our
system also.

If we were to put the planets in order ,


from the one closest to the sun, they
would be Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and
Pluto.

What do you know about how our


planet, Earth, moves in space?

Earth is the third planet. We call Earth


our home planet.
It is the shape of a sphere.

It has oceans full of water,


green forests, animals,
plants, and breathable air. It
is a unique planet. From
space, the Earth looks like a
beautiful blue-green marble,
with white swirling clouds.

Sunlight comes from the sun to the Earth.


The sunlight that warms our faces right
now left the sun over eight minutes ago.
The sun warms the Earth.

What causes
daytime and
night time on the
Earth?
What causes the
changing of our
seasons?

The Earth whizzes along spinning in


space at 67,000 miles an hour. We
cant feel it spinning. Yet is makes one
complete turn every 24 hours.

This spinning
around like a
top is called
rotation. As it
spins only one
side faces the
sun. Day
begins when
our part of the
world turns to
face the sun.

Night falls when our part of the Earth


turns away from the sun. The side
facing away from the sun has
nighttime.

This rotation or spinning of Earth


causes day and night. The Earth
rotates on its axis. The axis is an
imaginary line through its center. It
rotates once every 24 hours causing
day and night.

Every day the


Earth travels
around the
sun. The
Earth and the
moon travel
together in an
orbit around
the sun once a
year.

One revolution around the sun equals


365 days. This revolution causes the
changing of the seasons.

When the Earth moves closer to the


sun, summer returns. When the Earth
moves farther away from the sun in its
orbit, winter returns.

What is the
Earths natural
satellite?
What does it look
like?

The moon is the Earths only natural


satellite.
The moon is a
ball of rock that
is dry and dusty.
It has craters,
valleys,
mountains, and
large patches
called seas.

In 1969, the first man stepped onto


the moon. There is no wind or rain
on the moon to wash the footprints
away.

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Where does the light shining from


the moon come from?
Why does it seem to change shapes
in space?

The moon circles around the Earth


about once every 28 days. The moon
does not spin like the Earth. The moon
only spins once a month on its axis.
The moon looks bright at night, but it
does not make its own light.

We see the moon because the sun


shines on it. The sunlight bounces off
the moon and down toward the Earth.
We see reflected sunlight.

As the moon travels around the


Earth, we can see different amounts
of the side lit by the sun. The
moons appearance changes each
day through the month depending
on where the moon is in its orbit.

These changes of how the moon


looks from the Earth are called the
moons phases. Sometimes the
moon looks completely dark and
seems to disappear. This is called a
new moon. Sometimes the moon
looks round. This is called a full
moon.

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After the new moon, the moon appears to change.
More and more of the moon starts to show. This is
a crescent moon. When the moon is growing
larger, we call this a waxing moon.

It appears to grow larger


until it is a round, full
moon. Then the full
moon appears to grow
smaller. This is called
the waning moon. When
the moon goes from a
new moon to a full moon,
it has complete one orbit
of cycle.

A complete orbit
of the moon
around the Earth
produces the
moons phases
that we see.
This complete
cycle of the
moons phases
takes 29.5 days.

Because of the
moons orbit or cycle
of 29.5 days,
moonrise can
appear later each
day. That is why we
see sometimes see
the moon in the sky
at night and other
times we see it
during the day.

Learning about the Earth and the


moon has made all of you Space
Kids. See if you can now answer
the following questions.

Do you know
what a solar
system is?
Do you know
what is in our
solar system?

What causes
daytime and
night time on the
Earth?
What causes the
changing of our
seasons?

What is the
Earths natural
satellite?
What does it look
like?

Where does the light shining from


the moon come from?
Why does it seem to change shapes
in space?

Continue to explore Earth Science.


Share with others what you have
learned. Have fun!

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