Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Track the Earth’s movement by making and observing a sundial.
- Explore the Earth’s movement through simulation and time zones.
- Solve problems using scientific evidence.
Activities
- Create a sundial calibrated to key school times.
- Explore time zones and relate this to the movement of the Earth.
- Use scientific logic and knowledge to solve time problems.
Investigation - exploring/analysing secondary sources
Create a sundial and explore time zones.
Vocabulary
Earth, Sun, rotate/rotation, spin, axis, night and day, shadow clocks, sundials, astronomical clocks opinion/fact, support/refute, time-zone, Greenwich Meantime, gnomon