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Earth & Beyond: Sensational Seasons

You are an astronomer working for Teaching-Learning-Live, a company that specialises in providing educational material for primary-school students. You have been asked to create a multi-modal presentation for Year 7 students about the seasons on Earth.

A multi-modal presentation consists of a combination of two or more text types, e.g. print, image and spoken text, as in film or computer presentations.

Sensational Seasons

Introduction to Seasons Why do the seasons happen when they do?
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Astronomical Time Scroll down and look for: Astronomical time Day and night Months and months The seasons Years and years
Splash Home Page Search using key terms or search topics for content (e.g. videos, games) relevant to "Earth & Beyond"
Earth's Axis of Rotation “Why do the seasons happen when they do? Control the motion of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun. Work out how the Earth's orbit and the tilt of its axis determine day length and seasons in the different hemispheres. Examine the heating effect of the Sun and investigate how the seasons at different locations on the Earth are different.”
Seasons: interactive An interactive Seasons animation from McGraw-Hill allows students to experiment with different “inclination angles” for the sunlight to test what happens to the temperature at the observation point and the path of the Sun across the sky. They compare seasons on other planets too e.g. Venus and Uranus. You can make some predictions then test them out
How the Moon Influences Earth Apart from tidal changes, the Moon also plays a huge role in the Earth's climate and seasons. Find out how this large and close satellite of Earth makes it possible for life on our planet to exist. Discover how the Moon was created and if it will always be there.
Lunar Phases: Interactive Everyone is aware that the Moon changes its appearance from day to day. This interactive will show you why, & allow you to understand how the Moon’s phases are linked to where and when each phase appears in the sky. You can also observe the changes to the Moon over one month. Playing with this interactive will give you a real understanding of how the interplay between Moon, Earth and Sun creates what we see. The cycle of lunar phases and motions gives us our units of time, such as the hour, week, and month. Click on the link for “Lunar Phases Interactive” at the top of this web page.
Earth, Sun and Moon you can interactively investigate the movements of the Earth and Moon as the Earth orbits the Sun (Flash player

Primary Connections: Day and Night Explanation of night and day; the Earth's rotation, winter and summer solstice.
Primary Connections: Years and Years
Earth Rotation: Night and Day Look at Earth from out of space and discover how the rotation of the Earth is related to night and day.
Eclipse Interactive
Explore the Solar System Use the NASA interactive to review facts about the solar system (and play a game!)
Make a mini solar system Video - which lasts for approx 2 minutes - Bernie Hobbs 'Fundamentals'

NASA - What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate? The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.
Climate and Past Weather
Geography4Kids: Seasonal Changes This is a great website to use for your assignment
Climate vs Weather An interesting website that might have some relevance to this assignment

Aboriginal people – how to misunderstand their science Learn about how Aboriginal people understood the science of Earth's rotation and how they used that in relation to the food that they ate and harvested.
Gooniyandi Seasons Calendar This is the Mingayooroo - Manyi Waranggiri Yarrangi, Gooniyandi seasons calendar developed by people of the Gooniyandi language group of the Kimberley in collaboration with CSIRO. The resource consists of an introduction, a richly illustrated calendar and related links. The introduction contains information about the people’s use of meteorological events to tell them the best time for hunting and collecting particular foods. The calendar shows the cycle of four Gooniyandi seasons and what plants, animals and people are doing in each season. In and around the calendar are images of plants and animals and a diagram naming the various winds and explaining their origin.
Aboriginal Astronomy
Australian farming and agriculture – grazing and cropping Looks at the history of farming in Australia and how through climate change etc the processes of farming have changed.

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