PR-6171IRE Science A STEM Approach - 1st Class

Earth and the Environment
IN THE SKY AND ON THE LAND
Assessment
Teacher Notes
Science/Geography Learning Concepts
• Exploration of day and night and the changes in the sky and on the landscape.
• Changing weather and seasons and their effects.
• Natural, managed and constructed features in a landscape.
Indicators
• Identifies weather changes in a location by comparing images.
• Identifies seasonal changes to natural features in a landscape.
• Identifies changes to constructed features of a landscape by comparing images.
Answers
Page 156
Pupils should indicate that Picture 1 has the sun (so may be summer), the child is wearing cool clothes,
the tree has lots of leaves; Picture 2 shows a winter day with rain and wind, the leaves have fallen from
the trees and they are bare, the child is wearing warm clothes because of the cold weather, there is a
new fence at the front of the school.
Note 1: If available, teachers should use coloured, digital photographs of changes to the school
buildings or playground taken during the year. Even plants growing in different seasons in a school
vegetable garden may be used as assessment activities.
Note 2: Teachers may enlarge page 156 before photocopying to allow plenty of space for pupils to
write. Alternatively, teachers may scan the two images and display them on the whiteboard. Pupils may
then write on A4 paper which has two columns—one titled ‘sky/in the sky’ and the other titled ‘land/on
the land’.
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A STEM APPROACH