ASTRONOMY

Essential Question(s)

How do movements within the solar system affect everyday life?

Content Learning Targets

• Natural Cycles and patterns with the solar system include:
• Earth spinning around once every 24 hours (rotation), resulting in day and night
• Earth moving in a path around the Sun (revolution), resulting in one earth year
• The length of daylight and darkness vary with the seasons
• The appearance of the Moon changes as it moves in a path around Earth to complete a single cycle (phases of the moon)
• Sun and other stars appear to move in a recognizable patterns both daily and seasonally (constellations)