The Four Seasons (All About the Holidays)
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Summary
Spring, summer, fall, winter. Why do we have seasons? Learn more about how the tilt of the Earth affects climate and how different parts of the world experience seasonal change.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Short explainer (2 min) from PBS LearningMedia's *All About the Holidays*.
- What causes the seasons -- how far Earth is from the sun, or how it is tilted?
- Why is it summer in one half of the world while it is winter in the other?
- How does the amount of daylight change from season to season where you live?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: season, tilt, orbit, hemisphere.
Try it: Draw Earth at two points in its orbit and shade which half is tilted toward the sun in each.