1. Do Now!! Write your heading
Copy the day’s Learning Target: I can explain why there are seasons
Answer the following question (please copy the question)
What are the four seasons? What are the differences among them?

2. Mini Lesson There are four seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
There are two reasons for seasons
The Earth is tilted by 23.5º
The Earth revolves around the Sun

3. Tilted Earth

4. Seasons
When it is summer in New York (Northern Hemisphere) it is winter in Australia (Southern Hemisphere (and the opposite)
When it is fall in New York, it is spring in Australia (and the opposite)
Sun

5. The Earth revolves counterclockwise

6. Seasons
The more DIRECT the rays, the hotter it is

7. Solstices and Equinoxes
Solstice: Happens twice a year, when Earth’s axis is titled furthest away or closest towards the Sun
Summer Solstice: June 21st, the longest day of the year
Winter Solstice: December 21st, the shortest day of the year

8. Solstices

9. Mini Lesson
Equinox: Two times of the year when night and day are about the same length. The Sun is crossing the Equator and it is an equal distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.
Autumnal Equinox: September 21st, first day of fall
Spring Equinox: March 21st, first day of spring

10. Equinox vs. Solstice

11. Presenting diagrams Presenting Ms. Gerstein’s diagram
Present your diagram from last week

12. Activity Create a diagram that includes
The Earth in 4 positions around the Sun
Labeled seasons for both the North and South hemisphere
Labeled dates with the equinoxes and solstices

13. Debrief
Present your diagram