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The Four Seasons

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Description

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

Science and Engineering Practices

  • Construct an explanation using models or representations.
  • Develop and/or use a model to predict and/or describe phenomena.

Disciplinary Core Ideas

  • 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.

Crosscutting Concepts

  • 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.

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