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Center for Science Education: Eye on the Sky: What Makes Day and Night?

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This activity will allow you to model day and night cycles. A rotating student holding a map (provided) models the earth. A lamp is used to model the sun. Numerous worksheets (pdf) and additional website resources are also provided.

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Concepts
day, night
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Additional Tags
axis, earth rotation, explaining day and night, 1-ess1-1, eye on the sky, eye on the sky: what makes day and night?, university of california berkeley, what makes day and night?, rotation, earth's axis, rotation, and tilt
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional