inquiry and project-based learning

Essential Question: Why is the sun important?This essential question is very important and applies to all grade levels. This question is very broad. The sun is important and we need it for many things. Practically everything that moves across the surface of the Earth is ultimately powered by the Sun, whether alive or not. Students can look into this deeply and find out many things. The sun can affect things that we need in good ways and bad ways. So I think it’s a very good essential question because students can explore into this question.
UQ1. How do plants grow?
UQ2. How does the sun effect us?
UQ3. Does the sun give the earth engery?
My unit questions allow the students to explore the essential question. The unit questions is applied to science. This has the students finding about information about the sun. And also learning more information about the sun they can see how its applied to their lives and the enviorment.Teks 2nd grade Science(b) Knowledge and skills.A) ask questions about organisms, objects, and events;(E) construct reasonable explanations and draw conclusions using information and prior knowledge; and(F) communicate explanations about investigations