1. Science Chant
2. Do we come to school during the day or night?  What kind of things do you do at night?
3. Today we are going to read this book to find out what is different in the sky during day and night and some of the things people and animals do during the day and night?

4. Read All In A Day.

• During reading, draw students attention to  what is in the sky in the pictures, whether it is day or night, and what makes daytime light and nighttime dark (the presence of the sun).
• Ask students to describe what they see in the pictures and whether they have seen these things at home or outside in the daytime or at nighttime.

5. Ask students to describe their day and nighttime activities.

• Ask students what activities they do during the day and night (ex: eating, sleeping, playing, etc.).

6. Use the construction paper sun to dramatize day/night.

• What else is in the sky when the sun is up?  …when the sun is not up (nighttime)?  When do you see the moon?  Do you ever see the moon during the day when the sun is up?
• Using the paper sun, go through the motions the sun appears to make as it rises and sets, while students dramatize their own daytime and nighttime behavior.   Note:  The earth’s rotation is the cause of day and night.
• Ask questions about what they are doing and why.
• Repeat, but have students select different animals to enact during day and night times (diurnal animal examples: squirrels, birds, bees; nocturnal animal examples: Mice, cats, owls, bats).

• Use opportunities that arise throughout the day to observe what is in the daytime sky.
  • During outside time or looking out windows, observe and discuss what is seen in the sky. 
  • Ask students what their family members do at night.
  • Brainstorm ways that school would be different if students came at night.
  • Find examples in books of people who work at night.

• Introduce the concept of nocturnal (seek food and move about mostly at night) and diurnal (seek food and move about mostly in the day) and allow the students to sort animals by these classifications.

• Play a game in which the student listens to another student (or teacher) describe an activity. If it is a daytime activity, the student holds up the sun. If it is a nighttime activity, the student puts the sun down.