The Sun Warms Earth

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• Teaching Tips
  Included with this video are teaching tips, background information, links to relevant videos, and a hands-on activity that compares materials in both shady and sunny locations. Scroll down to the lefthand side to view Support Materials for Teachers and Students. Teachers could use the videos for a very brief introduction to how the sun warms the earth. The egg frying video could be used to reinforce lessons learned in [link https://serc.carleton.edu/resources/58439.html 'What is Weather?'], which is a more thorough lesson that already includes the second video. Both videos are best suited to be used alongside a full lesson about weather or the sun.
• About the Science
  These two short videos provide examples of how the sun warms the earth. The first video shows a time-lapse of an egg frying in the sun over ~30 minutes. The second video has an animated character named Peep comparing the differences in the temperature between a sunny spot and shady spot. The students learn that the sun warms land, air, water. Passed initial science review - expert science review pending.
• About the Pedagogy
  Both videos are highly engaging for K-2 students to grasp the idea of how the sun warms the Earth and the materials upon it. No learning outcome is specifically stated, but it is clear that the main outcome from the two videos is to learn that the sun heats the earth.
• Technical Details/Ease of Use
  These two videos combined are 3:20 minutes long