Space: Days and Season (KS3 Activate)

Day & Seasons

ALL define key words
MOST describe why we have day, night and season.
SOME explain why we have day, night and season.

Keywords: day, year, summer, winter, autumn, spring
Hook: What is 4.5 billion years old and travels at 1,038 miles per hour……?

S: What do you know about says and seasons? Hints for LA class
I; make sure pupils know how long a day and a year are and recap idea of orbits.

M:
A1. Introduce idea of day and night (demo with globe and torch- in dark room). Pupils to copy key information and draw a diagram to show this.

Extension why pupils are drawing diagram GMT maths activity slide 9.

A2 Introduce idea of northern and southern hemisphere and the axis which we are tilted on. Key information in grey boxes. Show Bill Nye the science guy video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUU7IyfR34o

A3. Suns height in the sky. LA slide 15 and Slide 16 HA

A4. Exploring science sheet. 7Lc1 (LA) and 7Lc2 (HA)

P:
True or false
Seasons
HA: Red hot Christmas.

HW: graph drawing 7Lc3 or HA activity 7Lc4

(Worksheet reference= exploring science)