Three fact files and a short summary cover the sun, moon, and stars in this 1st grade science worksheet. The sun file gives sentence starters, so students write that the sun is a star, that it rises in the east and sets in the west, and that we never look directly at it. The moon and star files drop the starters. A Did You Know? box explains that the sun looks so big because it is the closest star to Earth.
1-ESS1-1
“Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.”
The Sky pattern line in the sun file and the Shape pattern line in the moon file ask for patterns by name. The star file adds when stars appear and why.
A box to draw the sun and four sentence starters: what it is, when we see it, where it rises and sets, and the safety rule about looking at it.
Two prompts with no starters: when we see the moon and what its shape pattern is. The key notes it shows at night and sometimes in the day.
Students write when we see stars and why we cannot see them in the day.
A short reading that says the stars at night are just like the sun, only very far away.
One question asks why the sun is important to us, in one or two sentences.
Fading support
Model the sun file together, since it has sentence starters. Then let students try the moon and star files, which do not, on their own.
Safety moment
Stop at the Safety rule line. Talk about why we never look directly at the sun, even on a cloudy day.
Writing sample
The Sky Scientist Summary is short enough to grade in one sitting. Look for light, heat, or helping plants grow in each answer.
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