Tuesday, January 24, 2012

IIE Year Month and Day Blog Response

Suppose that you need to explain the concepts of a year, a month, and a day to a small child. Could you do this?
1) If you use the terms rotation, revolution, orbit, or any other term used specifically for astronomy, he/she might not know exactly what it means (Many adults wouldn't know what the terms mean either.) Be sure to explain these things as you go.
2) It would help if you related these concepts to things a 4-year-old would know about -- like Disney movies, Elmo from Sesame Street, Lego Duplo, Clifford the big red dog, etc.
For each concept (year, month, and day) describe the motion of the Earth, the moon, and the sun. Good luck.

11 comments:

Michelle said...

A day is how long it takes for the earth to turn completely around. A month is how long it takes for the moon to go around the earth. A year is how long it takes for the earth to go all the way around the sun.

Nathan Staples said...

A day is how long it takes Earth to spin around like a ballerina, a month is how long it takes for the moon to go around the Earth, and a year is how long it takes for Earth to spin around the Sun.

Jenna F said...

A day is how long it takes for the Earth to go all the way around. A month is how long it takes for the moon to go completely around Earth.
A year is how long it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun.

kristina moshofsky said...

a day is how long it takes the eath to spin.
a month is how long it takes he moon to go around the earth
a year is how long it tAkes the earth to go around the sun

Sophia L. said...

A day is night and day together. a month is how long it takes the moon to go around the earth. a year is how long it takes the earth to go around the sun

Logan L said...

Rotation is the time it take the earth to rotate on its axis like you spineing around in one spot A day or one rotation is 24 hours
Revolution is a year or the time it takes to go around the sun like if you ran around the house thats 12 mouths or 365.25 days or 8,766 hours or 525,960 minutes or 31,557,600 seconds or 3,155,760,000 milascondse
A mouth is cloes to 30 days or the time it takes for the moon to rotate around the earth so its in orbit of us

madi koster said...

a day is how long it takes the earth to turn compleatly around. A month is how long it takes the moon to go around the sun. A year is how long it takes the earth to go around the sun.

Steven said...

A day is how long it takes for the earth to turn aroun.
A month is how long it takes for the moon to rotate around the earth.
A year is how long it takes to have the earth spin around the sun

Justin and A-DUB said...

A day is how long it takes for the earth to turn completely around. A month is how long it takes for the moon to go around the earth. A year is how long it takes for the earth to go all the way around the sun.

Marissa C said...

A day is how long it takes for the earth to turn all the way around.
A month is how long it takes for the moon to go around the earth.
A year is how long it takes for the earth to go all the way around the sun.

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