3rd grade: History of the World - #4 creation

Lesson 4

God made lights for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

God made two great lights.

The sun rules the day.

The moon rules the night.

It was good.

Earth, Sun and Moon

1. The Earth

• The Earth is roughly spherical, like a slightly squashed ball.
• The Earth travels around the Sun once every year.
• The Earth also spins on its own axis (an imaginary line through its centre) once every 24 hours. This causes day and night on Earth. On the part of the Earth that is facing the sun, it is day; on the part of the Earth that is facing away from the sun, it is night.

2. The moon

• The moon is roughly spherical and is a lot smaller than the Earth.
• The moon travels around the Earth once every 28 days.
• We only see the part of the moon that is lit by the Sun. So sometimes we see the whole Moon and sometimes we only see part of the Moon.

3. The sun

• The sun is a star and gives out heat and light.
• It is roughly spherical in shape and is much, much bigger than the Earth.
• The Earth is just one of eight planets that travel around the sun. The other planets are called Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Genesis 1

14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.