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Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: The Earth's Orbit ActivityEyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: The Earth's Orbit Activity
Publisher
Harvard University
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3rd - 8th
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Science
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Lexile Measures
1170L
Activity

Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: The Earth's Orbit

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Students perform many inquiry activities related to Earth's orbit. Included are recording daily temperatures, observing the sun's path over several weeks, tracking sunrise and sunset times, and angle of sunlight. Diagrams make lessons easy to follow.

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Concepts

shadows, sunrise, sunset

Additional Tags

angle of earth, celestial motion, earth orbit, earth science, earth's orbit, earth's tilt, inquiry activities, laboratory investigations, length of day, revolution of earth, science experiments, seasons, space science, sunrise and sunset, 5-ess1-2, harvard university: the earth's orbit

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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