The Four Seasons

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In this activity, students investigate what causes the seasons by doing a series of kinesthetic modeling activities and readings.

Construct an explanation using models or representations.

Develop and/or use a model to predict and/or describe phenomena.

Patterns of the apparent motion of the sun, the moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, predicted, and explained with models.

This model of the solar system can explain eclipses of the sun and the moon. Earth’s spin axis is fixed in direction over the short-term but tilted relative to its orbit around the sun. The seasons are a result of that tilt and are caused by the differential intensity of sunlight on different areas of Earth across the year.

Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems.

Graphs, charts, and images can be used to identify patterns in data.