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Introduction and Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Sun: Our Nearest Star<\/a>, written by Franklyn M. Branley and illustrated by Edward Miller does a wonderful job explaining our daytime star, the sun.\u00a0 The book includes a beautifully illustrated analogy of the size of the sun compared to the size of the earth as a beach ball compared to a pea.\u00a0 The book explains how far away the sun is by how long it would take a space ship to travel to the sun compared to the moon and how long it takes light to reach the earth from the sun compared to the light from the other stars.<\/p>\n We learn from the book, that “without the sun,\u00a0 earth would be cold and dark.\u00a0 No Plants would grow, no animals, no bugs, birds or flowers.\u00a0 Nothing could live here.\u00a0 The sun keeps us alive.”\u00a0 There is an introduction to solar energy and then we are left with the fact that the sun has warmed our planet for millions of years and will continue to for many more millions of years.<\/p>\n The book is filled with vibrant illustrations that help to the relay the scientific concepts presented by Branley and includes two activities to help students find out more about the sun.<\/p>\n Curriculum Connections:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Sun: Our Nearest Star <\/em>would be great to use as an introduction to the solar system.\u00a0 It could be used to begin teaching the relationship between the sun and the earth and all that the sun provides for us such as light, warmth, plants and animals for food and solar energy. Students will realize that the sun keeps us alive.\u00a0 SOL 1.6 (a), 3.11 (a) (b),<\/p>\n Additional Resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n Lesson Plan: The Sun: Our Local Star<\/a> includes a reading comprehension passage and questions.<\/p>\n The Sun<\/a>\u00a0 is an interactive website that includes links to vocabulary, a song about the sun and a question from the information provided.<\/p>\n Star Stuff First Grade<\/a>\u00a0 is a collection of lesson plans related to the Virginia SOLs.<\/p>\n Tour the Planets<\/a> card game.<\/p>\n General Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n Book<\/strong>: The Sun: Our Nearest Star<\/a> Introduction and Summary: The Sun: Our Nearest Star, written by Franklyn M. Branley and illustrated by Edward Miller does a wonderful job explaining our daytime star, the sun.\u00a0 The book includes a beautifully illustrated analogy of the size of the sun compared to the size of the earth as a beach ball compared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAuthor<\/strong>: Franklyn Branley<\/a>
\nIllustrator<\/strong>: Edward Miller<\/a>
\nPublisher<\/strong>: HarperCollins<\/a>
\nPublication Date<\/strong>: 2002
\nPages<\/strong>:\u00a0 25
\nGrade Range<\/strong>: K – 3
\nISBN<\/strong>: 9780060285340<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"