Reasons for the Seasons
Reasons for the Seasons
activity:
background information
;
data table & step-by-step directions
for constructing graph;
activity questions
.
Related Resources
NASA Explorers
A Change of Season
, including a "NASAtoon animation explaining our seasons."
Among many good
geography lesson plans
from
George F. Cram Company, Inc.
,
SCSA
specifically recommends the following lessons (for use with the
Horizon Ring Globe
):
Lesson 11 - Rotation of the Earth
;
Lesson 12 - Global Time
;
Lesson 14 - Earth and Sun
;
Lesson 15 - The Changing Seasons
; and
Lesson 16 - Daylight Hours
(see section regarding the
analemma
).