What is a Star?

A nice thing about subscribing to Evan-Moor TeacherFileBox.com instead of buying individual books is that I can pull from various levels of the same curriculum series. While deciding between Everyday Literacy: Science, Grade K and Grade 1, I found that we had already covered most of the topics in Grade K with the science that we had previously used. Several topics were repeated in greater detail in Grade 1 as well. There were five topics from Grade K, though, that we hadn't really covered and I didn't want Tessa to miss them. I have been weaving those topics into the Grade 1 curriculum.

One such topic from Grade K was, "What is a Star?" I condensed the material to two days since the lessons were quite simple. The hands-on science activity is featured below. Tessa used seven silver stick-on stars, black construction paper and white chalk to recreate the Big Dipper constellation.

Guided by a photo on my Kindle Fire, Tessa recreated the Big Dipper constellation with silver stick-on stars and black construction paper.

Tessa wrote "Big Dipper" and dotted in other stars with white chalk.

Tessa's Big Dipper!