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__**Lesson 1 **__ **__﻿Turning In:__** This stage is informal. Teacher stimulates motivation and establishes prior knowledge. **__ Aim: __** The aim of this lesson is for students to be introduced to the topic of ‘sun smart’. Students will engage in activities which will stimulate ‘prior knowledge’ discussions about the dangers of the sun, and protection against it. __** Objectives: **__ As a result of this lesson, students explore their knowledge of the sun and express and develop their wonderings about it.

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5 mins || Students sit on floor

Students contribute to the discussion

Students participate in the activity || **Intro﻿ duce Topic:** Gather student to floor ﻿ Introduce story “The Sun: Our nearest star.” – Franklyn M. Branley

Read story to students. **Focus questions:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Discuss the book with students: * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What does the sun do?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Why do we need the sun?

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Produce a mind map of all the things students can think of in relation to the sun.

**Activity:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Have each student think of something they want to find out about the sun.

Students are then to write their wondering into a work book.

**Conclusion:** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Bring student back to the floor – explain we are going to make a sun of hands. Each child receives a piece of yellow or orange paper and is to trace their hand and cut it out – (activity can be completed in pairs).

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The teacher is then to write the students wondering on their cardboard hand and make a sun on the classroom display wall.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Pack up/Dismiss

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Early finishes work – Draw a picture about your wondering || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Book- The Sun: Our closest star.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Yellow and Orange Cardboard ||