Lesson 4 — day and night + the seasons

• Day and night
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Astronomy

3.2 Day and night

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3.3 The seasons

This lesson

• day and night + Earths movement what do you know?
  
• Day and night
• The seasons
• Conclusion

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
  

What causes day and night?

What do you know about the movement of the earth?

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.

1. True
2. False

The seasons are caused because the amount of Sun hours the Earth gets per season are different.

1. True
2. False

The seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth

1. True
2. False

Day and night

Foucaults pendulum

A demonstration

The Sun rises in the east

The Sun sets in the west

The seasons explained

through a whiteboard drawing

Conclusion

What have we learned?

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