EARTH - MOON SUN

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EARTH - MOON SUN

• Read each slide.
• Look at each picture.
• Answer each question.

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• The sun is the center of our Solar System.
• It gives us heat and energy.

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• The Sun is enormous!

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• If you look to the East each morning you will see
  the Sunrise.
• The Sun always comes up from the East.

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• At the end of each day the Sun goes down in the
  West.
• This is called Sunset.

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• Our Earth is one of nine planets that go around
  the Sun.
• Planets orbit the Sun. Each planet stays in its
  own ring or orbit.

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• Some planets are big and some are small.

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• Earth is a small planet.

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• This is our Earth.
• Our Earth is the 3rd planet
• from the Sun.

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• It takes 365 days for our Earth to travel all the
  way around the Sun.
• There are 365 days in one year.

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• While the Earth travels around the Sun it is also
  spinning around like a top.
• The Earth spins all the way around every 24
  hours.

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• This spinning is called rotation.
• We have day and night because of the Earths
  rotation.

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If you look at the night sky you will
see the Moon.
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• The Moon has its own orbit around the Earth.

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• Earth only has one Moon, but some planets have
  lots of moons.
• These are
• the moons
• of Jupiter.

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• Moons do not have their own light.
• The Earth does not have its own light.
• Planets and moons get their light from the Sun.

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• Each night you look at the Moon it will look
  differently.
• Sometimes the Suns light is blocked and you can
  only see part of the Moon.

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• The different shapes of the Moon are called
  phases.

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• It takes 28 days or one month for the Moon to go
  through all its phases.

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• The moon is always in the sky,
• but you can see it best in the night sky.

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• You can see stars in the night sky.

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• Long ago
• people
• made
  dot to dot
• drawings
  from
• the stars.
• We call
  these
• 
  Constellations.

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• Planets are
• always in the
• sky.
• Sometimes
• you can see
• some of the
• planets in the
• night sky.

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• Clouds are
• always in
• the sky.
• They are
• easier to
• see in
• the day
• sky.

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• The Sun is
• only seen in
• the day sky.
• We have day
• because of
• the Sun.

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QUIZ

• 1.What does the word rotation mean? _____
• 2.What happens every 24 hours? ________
• 3.Where do the Earth and the Moon get their
  light? ____________________________
• 4.Name three objects you can see in the night
  sky. _________________________
• 5.Why does the shape of the Moon change at
  different times of the month? ________