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Book Chapter | March 2011
Students, in this activity, use a globe and lamp to model Earth’s orbit. From this concrete model, they see and understand that the cause of Earth’s seasons is the tilt of its rotational axis.
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Book Chapter | March 2012
Understanding the causes of Earth’s seasons is quite challenging and is often misunderstood. Earth’s seasons are caused by the combination of its orbit around the Sun and the tilt of Earth’s axis in relation to that…
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Book Chapter | October 2016
This lesson helps students to develop and use a model of the Sun–Earth system to explain: the relationship between the amount of sunlight and the season; the relationship between the angle of incidence of sunlight and…
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Surveying Sounds of the Season
Journal Article | April 2023
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Solar Science: Exploring Sunspots, Seasons, Eclipses, and More
NSTA Press Book | January 2016
Solar Science offers more than three dozen hands-on, inquiry-based activities on many fascinating aspects of solar astronomy. The activities cover the Sun’s motions, space weather caused by the Sun, the measurement of…
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Book Chapter | October 2010
In this lesson, students act as naturalists spending time documenting their observations by writing and sketching in journals over repeated sessions that span changing seasons. The objective is for students to observe…
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Book Chapter | March 2012
Students, in this activity, will be able to observe broadly and focus closely to discover seasonal changes taking place within a local habitat. Then students will act as naturalists spending time documenting their…
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Book Chapter | March 2018
In this lab investigation, students are introduced to the disciplinary core ideas of (a) The Universe and Its Stars and (b) Earth and the Solar System as they develop a model that explains seasonal average temperature…
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Springtime in the Greenhouse: Planting Season
Book Chapter | March 2011
Children and adults alike are prone to believe that if a little of something is good, more is better. In the case of this story, your students will probably believe that if fertilizer is good for growing plants, it must…
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Understanding and Tracking the Annual Motion of the Sun and the Seasons
Book Chapter | December 2015
This chapter helps expand students’ thinking to how the apparent motion of the Sun in the sky changes throughout the year and the effects of those changes on the Earth, including the varying length of daytime and…
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Lesson Plan 1: Earth’s Sensational Seasons
Book Chapter | October 2018
In this lesson, students explore the concept of the four seasons and how the changing seasons affect plant development. They will begin to understand that seasonal changes are caused by Earth’s tilt as it rotates around…
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Journal Article | September 2019
Science and current events
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Journal Article | February 2019
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Q: Do You Have an Activity for Daily and Seasonal Patterns and Motions of Earth?
Journal Article | November 2022
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Scope on the Skies: Hurricane Season
Journal Article | September 2019
Astronomy throughout the year
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