The Earth and SeasonsQuick View
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The Earth and Seasons

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A PowerPoint presentation for teaching key stage 3 on the motion of the earth and seasons. Teaching points include explaining where day and night come from, defining the 'year' and the 'day' in terms of the earth's motion, and explaining why seasons exist. Lesson includes a true/false starter (revisited during plenary to assess progress), tasks requiring pupils to write their definitions of the day and the year, and explanation of the earth's tilted axis, and helpful animations to demonstrate both summer and winter. Also includes an optional 'exam-style' question at the end. The true/false questions should be used at the start of the lesson, and then set aside for the rest of the lesson. When pupils complete the activity again at the end, they are encouraged not to change their previous answers, but to write their new answers beside them. Hands-up can be used to determine how many more questions they got correct at the end, and therefore indicate how much progress has been made.
Phases of the Moon and EclipsesQuick View
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Phases of the Moon and Eclipses

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A PowerPoint presentation and supplementary worksheet covering the phases or the moon and how solar and lunar eclipses occur. PowerPoint includes series of animations of how the motion of the moon results in the same side always facing earth. Also includes link to video about different eclipses, questions encouraging pupils to explain these, and instructions for worksheet activity. Worksheet activity sees pupils discovering why the moon appears different shapes throughout its cycle. Instructions are on worksheet and guidance for naming each phase is on presentation. This activity requires polystyrene balls (or similar) and pens to shade in one side. Could be adapted to fit different resources. Plenary includes a multiple-choice style quiz, which can be combined with whiteboards to assess whole class progress. Optional additional plenary also asks pupils to come up with a question to ask their partners.