CHAPTER 10
Earth and Space Science Experiences
AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENTS
1. Students will submit two lesson plans on any of the topics or themes from this chapter.
2. Using the process skills studied in Chapter 9, plan at least three science activities relating to the topics in
this chapter. Be sure to include at least one process skill as a goal.
3. Complete a project plan for one of the topics from this chapter.
SUGGESTED TEST QUESTIONS
1. Weather and temperature affect the children‘s behavior.
2. Children from 3 to 8 years of age are too young to learn the value of protecting and preserving
their environment.
3 Children have unique preferences and reactions to temperature, weather, and seasons.
4. The sun is a star in our galaxy.
Fill–in-the-Blank Questions
1. Children should be encouraged to buy products that rot or decompose when discarded. These products
are called .
2. As children become ecology minded and learn to preserve and protect our Earth, it helps to remember
the three r’s, which are .
Multiple-Choice Questions
1. Suppose you are doing a unit on the seasons. Which of the following activities would be
appropriate for a group of 4-year-old children?
I. Make a scrapbook with a section for each season by having the children collage pictures
from magazines, pictures they bring from home, and
pictures they draw for each season of the year.
II Make a seasons’ wheel and divide it into four sections, and in each section put pictures
depicting that season.
III. Make a seasons’ journal and have the children write their feelings about each season in
their journal.
IV. In small, cooperative learning groups, have each child in the group share a favorite
season and tell what they like about that season.
V. Collect a set of picture cards representative of the various seasons. Encourage the
children to sort or categorize them by season.
a. All of the above b. III, IV, V
c. I, II, IV, V d. I, II, III, V
2. When the temperature of items changes, some items
a. expand.
b. contract.
c. expand or contract.
1. Describe some things you can encourage children to do to protect our environment and our Earth.
Chapter 10