Summary
“Happy Equinox!” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It explains the seasons and how things change through the year. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This video explains why we have seasons and how the year changes.
- What changes between the seasons in this video?
- Which season is it where you live right now?
- How does the amount of daylight change from summer to winter?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: season, daylight, year, change.
Try it: Draw the same tree in all four seasons and label what is different.