Home Plan - [GR2-L5-U1-LC1-31 Introducing Planet Earth]

The document covers Lesson 31 tips for Level 5, introducing students to Earth-related objectives such as understanding vocabulary words like continents and equator, identifying main ideas, and connecting to prior knowledge. It emphasizes Earth’s features supporting life and its diverse temperatures, while also discussing the global grid system for location identification and how Earth’s tilt creates seasons. The text underscores Earth’s vital role in providing a stable environment and sustaining life for all living creatures through its day-night cycle and routine functioning.

Contents

• Pages 1—34: Earth lesson tips
• Pages 35—53: Global grid system, Earth’s seasons, sustainability.

The section covers Lesson 31 tips for Level 5 with the goal of introducing the student (referred to as S) to the lesson objectives related to Earth. The learning objectives include using content words, connecting to prior knowledge to understand the text, and identifying the main idea and supporting details. The section introduces vocabulary words related to Earth such as Antarctica, continents, equator, seasons, and tilted. Tips are provided on how to introduce and understand each new word through pictures, definitions, sample sentences, and guiding questions. The text emphasizes that Earth has continents, oceans, and essential elements for supporting life like land, water, air, and energy from the sun. The importance of the equator, the division of Earth into continents, and the ability of Earth to support life are highlighted. The text also discusses the reasons why Earth is diverse in temperature, the presence of creatures in different parts of the planet, and why most people live in milder regions for building homes and growing crops. Throughout the section, there are tips for helping the student comprehend various aspects of Earth and reading strategies to enhance understanding.

This section of the document discusses the global grid system created by people to identify locations on Earth. It explains that longitude lines run north and south while latitude lines run east and west. Additionally, it describes how Earth’s tilt creates seasons, with different hemispheres experiencing opposite seasons at the same time based on their orientation towards the Sun. The section also highlights Earth’s ability to provide daylight and nighttime, as well as the promise Earth makes to continue functioning in these ways for the benefit of all living creatures. It ends by emphasizing Earth’s essential role in sustaining life with its stable environment and routine.