Students can work individually or in groups of 3 or 4 to create a solar oven out of a pizza box. Students are trying to figure out the best way to make a solar oven in order to melt the chocolate and marshmallow in the S’more. Students will be given a group of objects and tell them the basis of how to create a solar oven. The oven will need to be placed in direct sunlight for most of the day. This experiment works best on a very hot, sunny day.

This is a REMIX of Shelton and Robledo's "Solar Oven Engineering". An excel document has been added to assist in data collection, record keeping, and graph generation.Students can work individually or in groups of 3 or 4 to create a solar oven out of a pizza box. Students are trying to figure out the best way to make a solar oven in order to melt the chocolate and marshmallow in the S’more. Students will be given a group of objects and tell them the basis of how to create a solar oven. The oven will need to be placed in direct sunlight for most of the day. This experiment works best on a very hot, sunny day.

Students will conduct an activity to identify the effects of solar energy on our planet and its systems by observing how 3 colored soils absorb sunlight differently.

In this lesson, students experiment with evaporation of fresh and salt water and investigate factors that influence the rate of evaporation.

In this lesson, students will understand how energy from the sun serves as a source of light that warms the Earth. They will also investigate how different surfaces of the earth absorb different amounts of the sun's energy. Students will take temperature readings at a variety of locations.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students learn about the processes in the water cycle, especially as related to energy from the sun.

Students investigate conditions that affect extreme weather on Earth. They will use brainstorming, discussion, and resources such as images and video to gather information about weather, and then record their information on a provided worksheet.

This is the fifth lesson in the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). This is a fun and entertaining lesson on temperature. Students learn about temperature using hands-on activities and games.

In this lesson, students will compare temperatures of soil and water in and out of the sun, and recognize that the sun heats the land and water.

In this lesson, students will predict, measure and record temperatures using assorted colored paper pockets to determine if color plays a role with heat absorption. Student data will provide evidence that shows the sun is a source of heat and light for the Earth. Extension activities that include the arts, community and probing questions are included.

In this lesson, students will be introduced to thermometers and will practice taking temperature readings in different locations indoors and outside.

In this water cycle activity, students investigate the evaporation process by participating in an outdoor evaporation experiment held on the school grounds. Students will determine where evaporation takes place the fastest and how nature and humans can affect the process. Observations will be done and data is recorded in each student's science notebook so that the process can be discussed and analyzed.

In this lesson, students make observations that things in direct sunlight are warmer than things that are not in as much sunlight. Also, they may notice that there may be more heat near asphalt, brick, or cement because heat can be stored and radiated from these, also.

This resource is a compilation of text, videos, and other elements to create a scaffolded 5E learning experience for students. In this lesson, students explore how organisms meet their needs in their environment or habitat.

This is lesson one of the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). Students learn by observation and hands-on activities the act of water changing state from a solid to a liquid to a gas.

In this lesson, students will understand the role of the sun as a source of heat on Earth as they participate in two activities: Solar Panning and Greenhouse Model. Students will discover the effects of the sun's heat energy by measuring the temperature of pans of water left in a sunny place over a long time period, and they will create mini greenhouses using 2 liter bottles of soil to measure how the earth's temperature rises as a result of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The strength of this lesson can be found in the varied family, extension, differentiation and inquiry-based activities that are included.

Students will work in groups to build simple solar stills filled with salt water and observe what happens when the stills are placed in the sun. The students then taste the water they have collected and discuss what has happened in their stills.

This is the second lesson in the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). Students have the opportunity to work in groups to draw the rain cycle and make their own "movie" using a large cardboard milk carton and heavy white paper. Students are assessed on their ability to identify the pattern of the rain cycle and to sequence the events in order. Emphasis is placed on the Sun being the source of heat that drives the cycle.

Students use an IR thermometer to observe how heat energy from the sun can warm materials.

Through this lesson, students will understand the relationship among the Sun, heat energy, evaporation, and condensation.

Students design an experiment to determine how the energy from the sun heats water and land differently.

This handout is to be used with the activity "What a Wacky Winter!" In this activity students design an experiment to determine how the energy from the sun heats water and land differently.

These are the student instructions for the activity "What a Wacky Winter!" In this activity students design an experiment to determine how the energy from the sun heats water and land differently.

This task will extend classroom integrated instruction within a science unit on weather, focusing on the sun's energy. AIG students will use synectics, write an opinion piece and create a collaborative digital product. After whole-class instruction on how the sun's energy heats the air, land and water, AIG students will engage in close reading of nonfiction texts about solar energy. They will then work in collaborative pairs to brainstorm and write similes using synectics to compare solar energy with seemingly unrelated items. The pairs will then create a digital product to publish and illustrate their extended similes. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students learn how energy from the sun serves as a source of heat and light for Earth.

In this lesson, students will take a closer look at the sun and begin to recognize its critical function in heating and warming the air, land, and water that sustain our lives. This will involve drawing their attention to the basics of the heat around them and how the sun is the primary source of that warmth. They will then perform a number of indoor and outdoor activities that support the benchmark, and help to begin their identification of the sun as the natural, universal source of heat in the world.

This interactive water cycle diagram illustrates and describes how water moves through and between locations on Earth.

In this short unit, students observe, discuss, and investigate the concept of weather. First, students participate in a class discussion centered around the question, "It is ___ degrees outside. What should I wear?" Next, students investigate temperature, sunlight, and snow with various experiments. Finally, students compare theri weather with weather in a different location.

This lesson is the eighth lesson in the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). The activities in this lesson serve as a comprehensive review for the unit on weather. Students review weather concepts through interactive games, role-play and experiments.