8/13/2019 Demonstrating Day and Night
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A kinesthetic method of explaining day / night!
This file are in three parts
page 1 is the instructions, and page 2 indicates additional
resources that I have uploaded,
page is a diagram of the setup,
the rest of the document is the pages that are to "e photocopied
for times and place#
$reparation
%"tain a piece of polypropylene rope a"out 2& metres long 'I
"ought mine at ()*+, tie the ends together then
tie 12 loops 'each loop is a"out 2& cm long+ at eual
intervals pupils holding the place names -ill each hold
on to a loop#
$hotocopy the daytimes '.# am pm+ on to yello- card0 photocopy
the night times '.# pm am+
on to dark "lue card so the difference can "e seen "et-een day
and night#
$hotocopy the ast longitude cards on to one colour of card, and
the est longitude cards on to a different
colour that -ay, you can "e sure that ast and est do not "ecome
confused#
3ind an area that has a line on the floor 'to delineate day from
night+ and an o"vious o"4ect at right angles to the
line and at a long distance 'this represents the 5un+ the 5un
al-ays illuminates exactly half of the 6arth7#
The class is divided into t-o Teams
Team A form a circle holding the time cards , and do not
move
Team ( form a circle of longitude lines, hold on to the
appropriate loop in the rope and rotate once per 28 hrs
ncourage pupils in Team ( to 6telephone7 each other to talk
a"out -eather / amount of light / -eather#
5-ap the teams!
9( If the people holding the time cards form a mirrorimage of
the circle 'so that da-n, at am / .# am is
on the lefthand side+, then the pupils holding longitude cards
have to rotate in a clock-ise direction#
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