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They color the illuminated side, determine whether Durham is day or night, estimate the time in Durham, and then infer the time at the other points.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},157630,1790627129,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":34,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145,"preview_page_count":4},962085662650,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_29158cc5080c5b710cf443261637dec0","Earth-Moon-Sun Notes\n1.  For the first meeting, we try to explain the way Earth's rotation\ncauses Sun to move in sky, leading to night and day, and the fact that\nthe time of day is different in different places on Earth.\n- First spend 30 minutes with a globe to represent Earth, an overhead\nprojector representing the Sun, and a little figurine you can put\non the Earth to represent people.  Explain that a globe is a small-scale\nmodel of the Earth.  Explain that in our pretend game for the day they\nare huge (bigger than Earth) and out in space.  They can pretend they\nhave spacesuits for air.  But space is dark (turn off lights).  Only\nlight around here comes from Sun (turn on slide projector).  If you look\nat Sun you get blinded, so don't.  But when sunlight hits Earth, you can\nsee the Earth.  Moreover, people on Earth can now see stuff around them\nbecause sunlight illuminates it.  But not all people on Earth.  Note that\nonly half of Earth illuminated.  People on that half can see around them;\nif they look up (use figurine) they see the Sun.  On other side of Earth,\nit's dark and Sun is not in sky.  Let them tell you this is day/night.\nNow ask them how this situation changes.  Get to Earth rotating slowly.\nTakes a whole day and night to go around - 24 hours.  Show them Durham and\ngo through a day and a night in Durham, showing where the Sun seems to be.\nExplain that Sun looks like it moves in sky - rises, sets, etc. - just as\nwhen on carousel things *off* the carousel seem to be spinning.  Earth as\na merry-go-round (you can tell them we move at 800 mph as it spins if\nyou think it will not take you on a huge tangent).  Finally, show how\ndifferent places on Earth have a different time of day at any given time.\nIf there are kids in the class who have flown far enough to notice (ask\nteacher about this in advance - it may be her opportunity to let some\nforeign student who never talks shine) let them talk about jetlag and\nexplain how this works.\n- Following these (rather dense) 30 minutes they will do a follow-up\nactivity with you and the teacher helping out and monitoring.  This\nis likely to be a good group activity but how they do it is up to the\nteacher.  We will hand out papers with several configurations of\na Sun, an Earth (each a circle), with four points marked on Earth.\nOne of these will be red and will represent Durham.  Sun will always\nbe on left (say) but Earth will be rotated, so time in Durham is\ndifferent.  Their first goal will be to color (in yellow?) side\nof Earth illuminated by Sun.  Then they try to figure out if it is\nday or night in Durham.  Then to guess what time it is in Durham.\nFinally, they can go back and try to figure out what time it is\nat the other points marked on Earth in each of the configurations.\nThis should help nail the concepts.  It will also come in handy\nlater when we use the same trick to understand Moon phases.\nName  _______________________________________________\nDay and Night\nIn each  of these pictures, we see the Sun on the left and the Earth on the right.  We are looking down at the Earth from above the North pole.  We have marked four places on Earth as 1,2,3,4 to make it easier for us to see what happens as Earth rotates.\nAt 12 noon, you should be able to see the Sun by looking directly overhead.\nLabel the Earth and the Sun.\nIt is daytime on about half of the Earth, where the sunlight can reach.  Color this half of the Earth yellow.\nDraw a small stick figure at one of the four numbered points so that this person can see the Sun by looking straight up.\nAt which of the numbered points is it noon in the picture?\n____________\t\t\t\t\t      _____________\n1\n2                               4\n3\nAs the Earth turns, our stick figure is carried with it.  It stays at the same spot at position #2.  This picture shows what happens about two hours after the first picture.\nLabel the Earth and the Sun.\nIt is daytime on about half of the Earth, where the sunlight can reach.  Color this half of the Earth yellow","cbCairAZcYjpdmyI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairAZcYjpdmyI","doc",134656,15,"English","# Earth-Moon-Sun Notes\n## First meeting: explaining rotation, sunlight, and local time\n## Follow-up activity with Earth/Sun configurations\n## Day and Night worksheet prompts\n## Seasons (lesson transition)","[{\"question\":\"How does Earth’s rotation cause day and night?\",\"answer\":\"Sunlight reaches only half of Earth at any moment, so the illuminated half experiences daytime while the other half is dark. As Earth rotates, a specific location moves from light into darkness and back again.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is noon different at different places on Earth?\",\"answer\":\"Because Earth rotates as a whole, different longitudes face the Sun at different times. 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