Why We Have Seasons
How the World Works · Investigate how Earth's tilt changes the light and warmth a place receives.
Name: ____________
Date: __________
🎬 First, watch Why Are There Seasons? (SciShow Kids)
🙌 Then try: Tilted Earth and the Lamp Sun — Use a lamp as the Sun and a tilted apple as Earth. Move it around the lamp and notice how the tilted top gets more or less light.
- Predict: when the top leans toward the lamp, warmer or cooler?
- Observe the tilted Earth on four sides of the lamp.
- Draw the Earth in each season, shading the side with most light.
- List the four seasons in order, starting with now.
💭 Think about it
How would the year feel different if the Earth were not tilted at all?
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