Light and Shadows
• Arrow to the Sun: A Pubelo Indian Tale, Gerlad McDermott
• Eyewitness: Light, Davis Burnie
• Guess Whose Shadow?, Stephen R. Swinburne
• I Love My Shadow!/¡Me Gusta Mi Sombra!, Scholastic
• Light and Shadow (Yellow Umbrella Books), Susan Ring
• Light, Shadows, Mirrors and Rainbows (Amazing Science), Natalie M. Boyd
• Light: What is a Shadow? (Science Starters), Jim Pipe
• Moonbear’s Shadow, Frank Asch
• My Shadow, Robert Louis Stevenson (illustrated poems)
• Nine O’Clock Lullaby, Marilyn Singer
• Oscar and the Moth: A Book about Light and Dark, Geoff Waring
• Shadow Night, Kay Chorao
• Shadows and Reflections, Tana Hoben
• Shadows: What a Funny Shape!, Ben Nussbaum and Kathy Waugh
• The Art of Hand Shadows, Albert Almoznino
• The Sun is my Favorite Star, Frank Asch
• What Makes a Shadow (Let’s Read and Find Out Science 1), Clyde Robert Bulla and Jume Otani
• What the Sun Sees/What the Moon Sees, Nancy Tafuri
• Who’s There? A Bedtime Shadow Book, Heather Zschock
• Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, Elphinstone Dayrell
• One World, One Sky Teacher Guide from Sesame Street
Moon and Sun
• The Sun is my Favorite Star, Frank Asch
• What the Sun Sees/What the Moon Sees, Nancy Tafuri
• Who’s There? A Bedtime Shadow Book, Heather Zschock
• Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, Elphinstone Dayrell
• Arrow to the Sun: A Pubelo Indian Tale, Gerlad McDermott
• Sea of Tranquility, Mark Haddon
• Faces of the Moon, Bob Crelin
• Man on the Moon, Anastasia Suen
• The Moon Over Star, Dianna Hutts Aston
• If You Decide to Go to the Moon, Faith McNulty
• Comets, Stars the Moon and Mars, Douglas Florian
• Moontellers: Myths of the Moon from Around the World, Lynn Moroney
• Moonshort, Brian Floca
• Moonbeam Bear, Rolf Fanger and Ulrike Moltgen
• Cabbage Moon, Tim Chadwick
• Zoo in the Sky, Jacqueline Mitton
• Zodiac; Celestial Circle of the Sun, Jacqueline Mitton
• Starry Messenger, Peter Sis
• The Moon Seems to Change, Franklyn M. Branley
• Mooncake, Frank Asch
• What the Moon is Like, Franklyn M. Branley
• What Makes Day And Night, Franklyn M. Branley
Last Updated December 27, 2011
Alabama Course of Studies (2005)
Science
Grade: K
2.) Identify the sun as Earth's source of light and heat.
• Predicting the effect of the sun on living and nonliving things
• Identifying relationships between light and shadows
• Predicting the occurrence of shadows
10.) Identify objects observed in the day sky with the unaided eye, including the sun, clouds, moon, and rainbows.
Grade: 2
11.) Identify basic components of our solar system, including the sun, planets, and Earth's moon.
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