Lesson 5 — 3.3 The seasons

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• Middelbare school
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Day and night & the seasons

This lesson

Video

Recap

The reasons for the seasons

Worksheet seasons

Learning goals

• Explain why we have day and night and why the sun rises in the east en sets in the west.
  

• Describe what it means that the Earths rotational axis is and what it means that it's tilted.

• Describe how Foucault's pendulum works.

• Explain how the Earth's tilt causes the seasons.

Recap

Day and night

The tilt of the earth

Foucaults pendulum

3.3 The seasons

What difference are there between summer and winter?

• It's warmer in summer than in winter.
  

• The days are longer in summer than in winter.
  

• The sun is higher in the sky at noon in the summer than it is at noon in the winter.
  

The reasons for the seasons

Homework

• The seasons worksheet.

• Read 3.4
• Yellow block exercises of paragraph 3.4

Learning goals

• Explain why we have day and night and why the sun rises in the east en sets in the west.
  

• Describe what it means that the Earths rotational axis is and what it means that it's tilted.

• Describe how Foucault's pendulum works.

• Explain how the Earth's tilt causes the seasons.