Causes of Seasons Rotation and Revolution Activity Earth's Movement

Description

If you need a creative, student-centered activity to reinforce or assess the day and night cycle and the cause of seasons, keep reading! This Earth’s movement storyboard activity is a great way for students to demonstrate knowledge and practice scientific drawings. Your students will love using their artistic abilities and summarization skills to complete this seasons storyboard activity.

After reading short descriptions about day and night, rotation, and revolution, students will create and label a scientific diagram on the seasons worksheet to summarize what they read. They will then write a sentence to summarize what they read and drew.

This assignment includes three levels of differentiation for learners of all abilities, including ELL learners.

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⭐Rotation, Revolution, and Seasons Complete Unit

Concepts included:

Rotation of the Earth on its axis
Day and night
Earth’s revolution around the sun
Earth’s tilt towards Polaris (North Star)
The relationship between direct sunlight, longer days, and summer seasons
The relationship between indirect sunlight, shorter days, and the winter season

What’s inside the seasons, rotation, and revolution activity?

3 differentiated versions of the project PDF
2 differentiated project pages
Rubric
6 Full-size sample projects

Why purchase this product?

⭐No prep! Saves you time!

⭐Tested for years in my classroom

⭐Differentiation included for a variety of learners including special education & ELL

⭐Students are engaged in this activity

⭐Great way to review and summarize the phenomena of seasons!

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