3rd Grade-Week 5 What Causes Earth's Seasons?

5^th Lab Session Week

This students will have a quiz on the Sun, Earth, Moon and Stars. 

Today's lesson will teach them why the Earth has seasons, and it's all because of how the Earth rotates!

The Earth's tilt during winter in the Northern Hemisphere

Then we will be making a Sky Wheel to help them find constellations in the night sky. 

The Sun, Earth, Moon, and Stars Quiz

Concept: Seasons

Class Reading: Read pgs 169-178.

Investigation: How does the Earth's rotation effect the Earth’s season?

·      Quiz

·      Vocabulary

1.    Axis

2.    Rotation

3.    Revolution

4.  Tilt

·      Brain Pop- “Seasons”
·      Sky Wheel-cut skywheel

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