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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Rotation of Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the Earth rotates around its axis.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Rotation of Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How the Earth rotates around its axis.
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NASA

Nasa: Earth: Overview: Our Home Planet

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a comprehensive look at the planet Earth including photos, how Earth got its name, and facts and figures about its size, seasons, moon, atmosphere, rotation, and lithosphere.
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: As the Earth Turns

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Join Audrey on her learning adventure as she discovers how the Earth's rotation causes day and night.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Rotation: Why Is There Day and Night?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this rotation activity, students investigate what causes day and night by participating in a classroom activity. Students will observe, question, and investigate how the relationship between the earth and sun causes day and night.
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Other

Earth Science: Earth's Surface and Heat [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
This textbook chapter looks at the role of temperature in sustaining life on Earth and on weather and climate. It discusses the Earth's movements and the seasons, the circulation of the oceans, wind and weather, and the water cycle....
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BBC

Bbc Schools: Ks2 Bitesize: Science: Physical Processes: Earth, Sun, and Moon

For Students 3rd - 5th
Help Sarah Jane and her team put the solar system's planets back in order. Following the activity, read more about the sun, the Earth, and its moon, and then take a quick quiz to check for understanding.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Our Solar System: A Day on Earth

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on how the Earth's tilt on its axis, its rotation, and its orbit around the Sun give us a 24-hour day, a 365-day year, and our seasons.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Planets of the Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examines the eight planets of our solar system, their orbits, and rotation.
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NASA

Nasa: Eclipse Predictions and Earth's Rotations

For Students 3rd - 8th
An insightful website from NASA that presents a series of different questions about the rotation of the Earth.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Modeling Earth's Seasons by Rotation and Revolution

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will discuss, define, and demonstrate the Earth's rotation and revolution around the sun in a counterclockwise position. They will be able to predict seasons based on the amount of light that hits the Earth.
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Other

Astro Methods: Earth's Nutation Visualized

For Students 9th - 10th
Nutation is a small cyclical motion superimposed upon the steady 26,000-year precession of the Earth's axis of rotation. It is mainly caused by the gravitational effect of the 18.6-year rotation period of the Moon's orbit. The main...
Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Seasons: Earth's Orbit

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An interactive animation demonstrating the Earth's tilted axis and how that causes the seasons. Also included on the site is a short quiz on the topic.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Earth and Space Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource provides information about Earth and space. In addition, there is a quiz provided.
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PBS

Nova: Make the Earth's Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
The earth has some unusual properties that make its' weather suitable for life. This activity allows you to change four properties (earth's size, rotation speed, angle of the sun, and ocean size) to see what effects they would have on...
Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Seasons

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] View how the axis of rotation causes Earth to have seasons on this site. Also test your knowledge on how the position of Earth and seasons relate with a short quiz.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Earth and Sun

For Students 9th - 10th
A slideshow exploring Earth's rotation and revolution around the sun. Learn that because of Earth's axis tilt we experience the seasons!
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Other

University of Windsor: Climates on a Rotating Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the text of a college lecture on the atmosphere, with information on the effect prevailing westerlies have on North America.
Website
Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Coriolis Spinning Around the Earth

For Students 3rd - 8th
An overview of the Coriolis Force, an effect on wind due to the rotation of Earth.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Planets of the Solar System

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Examines the eight planets of our solar system and their orbits and rotation.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Rotation of the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A KWL activity combined with a demonstration model. Students record their ideas and questions about why we have day and night. They then shine a flashlight (the Sun) on a rotating styrofoam ball (the Earth) and record their observations....
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NASA

Nasa: Image Science Center: Ask the Space Scientist Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Site from NASA contains a collection of 91 questions pertaining to the Earth's atmosphere, magnetic field, ionosphere, rotation and origin of life.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Earth's Movements in Space

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains definitions for axis, rotation, revolution explanation of seasons and an assessment using Activotes.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Earth and Space Day and Night

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart illustrates a view of the earth from space and how day and night happens.

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