This lesson contains 22 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Items in this lesson
Astronomy
3.2 Day and night
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3.3 The seasons
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This lesson
day and night + Earths movement what do you know?
Day and night
The seasons
Conclusion
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Goals
Describe what axis, rotation and revolution mean.
Explain why we have day and night and why the sun rises in the east en sets in the west.
Describe how Foucault's pendulum shows the earth rotation
Explain how the Earths tilt causes the seasons
Explain how the earths tilt effects the path of the sun over the sky
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What causes day and night?
Slide 4 - Mind map
What do you know about the movement of the earth?
Slide 5 - Mind map
The distance between the sun is different depending on where it is in its orbit. Half of the year the earth is further away from the sun, the other half it is closer. This causes the seasons.
A
True
B
False
Slide 6 - Quiz
The seasons are caused because the amount of Sun hours the Earth gets per season are different.
A
True
B
False
Slide 7 - Quiz
The seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth
A
True
B
False
Slide 8 - Quiz
Day and night
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Foucaults pendulum
A demonstration
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The Sun rises in the east
The Sun sets in the west
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Slide 18 - Video
The seasons explained
through a whiteboard drawing
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Conclusion
What have we learned?
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Goals
Describe what axis, rotation and revolution mean.
Explain why we have day and night and why the sun rises in the east en sets in the west.
Describe how Foucault's pendulum shows the earth rotation
Explain how the Earths tilt causes the seasons
Explain how the earths tilt effects the path of the sun over the sky