Day and Night

Review that Earth spins once about every 24 hours, so each place turns into and out of the sunlight.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 1

Welcome to Earth and Moon Orbit! Let's start with something you see every day: day and night.
Earth spins around an imaginary line called its axis, once about every 24 hours. The half facing the sun has day. The other half has night.
As Earth turns, your town moves into the sunlight, which is morning, and later turns away from it, which is evening.
The sun isn't moving around us. It only looks that way because we're spinning, like trees seem to move past a car window.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:

S4E2.a — Develop a model to support an explanation of why the length of day and night change throughout the year.