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Visual Learning Systems
Understanding Earth's Tilt and Its Impact on Weather
In this video, we learn about the concept of seasons and how they are determined by the tilt of the Earth's axis. The video focuses on New England as an example of a place with four distinct seasons - winter, spring, summer, and fall....
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Seasonal Changes
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Causes of Seasons:
The orbit of Earth on a tilted axis around the sun leads to the seasons. The resulting change of angle of the sun, and length of day controls how warm we get at different times of the year. With those changes in seasons come changes in...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Air
The 3 simple ingredients of sun, air and water lead to every type of weather on Earth. The atmosphere is constantly trying to balance heat from the sun with water vapor and air to create a dynamic planet. The unique properties of the...
Weatherthings
Weather and Seasons: sun and seasons, meteorologists, instruments
A little girl and her grandfather spend a summer afternoon sitting by a pond. The conversation changes from how warm the summer day is to how the pond gets cold and freezes in the winter. The grandfather helps the girl understand how the...
Visual Learning Systems
Earth and Moon Cycles Review
This video is a review of the Earth and Moon Cycles series. In this video, we explore the relationships and interactions between the Earth, Sun, and Moon. We learn about how the Earth's rotation causes day and night, and how the varying...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Living From the Land and Sea
In this video segment adapted from the Alaska Native Heritage Center, discover the connections between Alaska Native subsistence culture and the natural cycle of the seasons.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arctic Summer
See the many birds that spend their summer in the Arctic in this video segment from Nature. [2:52]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Earth's Tilt Causes Seasons
Sal explains how the seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth. [20:42]
Other
Canal Pakapaka: Canciones De Cuento en Cuento: Estaciones
A fun, upbeat song in Spanish to help children learn the various seasons.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Seasons Aren't Dictated by Closeness to the Sun
This session illustrates that the distance from the sun does not determine the season for the Earth. [4:39]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons
A video spelling out the scientific reason for the four seasons. Understand why it is summer in the United States at the same time Australia is experiencing winter. [5:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness
In this Kindergarten through 5th grade video, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doingactivities like playing baseball and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Cycles in the Sky
Take a look at the cyclical phenomena at work in the universe. Learn about the subtle changes in the sky that take place over time as the Earth circles the sun, following along the ecliptic. Learn how the tilt of the Earth's axis has a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Introduction to Astronomy
Host Phil Plait explains the nature and origins of the field of astronomy. Learn how ancient humans observed the sky and associated the patterns they found there with farming and the seasons on Earth. Early astronomers developed an...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: The Leaf Game
Daniel turns leaf watching into a fun color game. Help kids identify different colored leaves and use them for an art project or game. Includes a link to a supplemental activity. [1:28]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hungry Beasts
Learn about the wildebeest and locusts on the move in this video segment from Nature. [2:47]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Planetary Moves
This video segment from Nature offers an introduction to four species' migratory patterns. [2:05]
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Seasons
The video teaches the names of the four seasons, their weather, the time at which they come in a year, seasonal changes, and activities we do in each season. [2:21]
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: The Four Seasons
A fun learning video intended to teach the four seasons.
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 11.1: Seasons and the Sun
Ever wonder why we have seasons? A lot of people think it's because the Earth gets further away from the sun in winter, and closer in the summer. But, it's actually more interesting than that. In this episode of Crash Course Kids,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 8.1: Earth's Rotation & Revolution
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the Earth's rotation and revolution and how these things contribute to night and day and how Earth's tilt gives us seasons. [4:00]
Other
Kurdistan Planetarium: Mechanism of the Seasons
Find out what makes different areas on Earth experience four seasons. [5:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Precession Causing Perihelion to Happen Later
Clarifies the effect of axial precession on the calendar and the date of perihelion and aphelion. [12:04]