Our Sun Worksheet
Our sun worksheet for 3rd grade: students sort eight facts into what the Sun is and what the Sun does, then find both inside four sentences. Answer key included for quick, no-prep science practice.
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The Sun is the closest star to Earth, and learning what it is and what it does is where every young scientist begins. This our sun worksheet gives third graders a clear, hands-on way to separate the Sun’s properties, the things it is, from its functions, the things it does. A huge, round, very hot star is a property. Giving light, giving heat, helping plants grow, and pulling the planets around it are functions. Sorting facts into those two groups is real science thinking, and it turns a loose list of facts about the Sun into an organized way of understanding our closest star.
On this 3rd grade earth science worksheet, students start with a word box of eight short phrases about the Sun and write each one into the column where it belongs: What the Sun Is, or What the Sun Does. Then they read four sentences and pull two words out of each one, the word that tells what the Sun is like and the word that tells what the Sun does. Use it as a lesson warm-up, as independent practice after a solar system read-aloud, or as a quick check before a unit test. A complete answer key is on the second page.
What’s Included
- 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
- Answer key
- An eight-phrase sorting chart plus 4 sentence items with 2 answers each
Three things make this our sun worksheet work in a third grade classroom. First, sorting asks students to compare rather than recall, because a child has to decide whether a fact describes the Sun itself or describes what the Sun does for us. Second, the sentence items move that same thinking into reading, where students hunt for evidence inside a line of text instead of copying from a list. Third, the short, friendly phrases keep the reading load low, so students spend their energy on the science idea instead of on decoding long words.
Teachers and parents can stretch this lesson in simple ways. Step outside at three different times of day and record where the Sun sits in the sky and how warm the pavement feels. Put one potted plant on a sunny windowsill and a matching plant in a dark closet, then compare them after a week. Ask students to draw the Sun and label three properties and three functions of their own. A class chart headed Is and Does can be added to all year long as students learn more about the solar system.
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