Earth’s Orbit And Seasons—Demonstration Kit

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What causes our seasons on Earth? How does Earth’s revolution around the Sun influence the changing of the seasons? Demonstrate and explain the answers to these questions and more using this low-cost, highly visual kit! Use the Earth model to allow students to observe the changing of the seasons in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere over a year’s time. Students also see the variation in day length in different areas of the world at various times of the year.

Concepts: Seasons, Earth motions, orbits, ellipse.
Time Required: 20 minutes