Sunday, January 24, 2010

Week of 1/17 - 1/22

This week we reviewed our learnings about the moon, seasons, and the earth. We also learned some new stuff, too. Like Solstices and Equinoxs and how they have to do with the earth and its tilt and seasons. An Solstice is when one hempshire gets the most amount of sunlight and when the other gets the least amount. In other words the one hempshire is the longest day of the year and the other is the shortest. Also Solstices happen twice a month. Now Equinox's are when day turns to night also when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator. Also Solstice and Equinox's happen in Summer or Winter.

Towards the end of the week we needed to complete sorta of a lab report by creating 20 trails on the orbit simulation and having an experiment and conclusion to many questions that we needed to answer.

The real world application for this week is easy during night feel if its getting dermaticly colder then its a equinox.

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