Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Go West Young Peep

K - 1st
Where does the sun go at night? Come along with PEEP as he sets out to find this answer. Along the way, learn some interesting facts about the sun and shadows. Extensive teaching tips and additional activities are also included. [8:50]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daytime/nighttime

Pre-K - 1st
In this Dinosaur Train clip, the Pteranodon family is going on a camping trip. The train conductor explains about day and night, the changes in temperature between them, and how the sun rises and sets because the Earth is rotating on its...
Instructional Video
University of Nottingham

Sixty Symbols: Symbols of Physics and Astronomy: Degree of an Angle

9th - 10th
A look at what a "degree" is, and how important the degree of an angle is in different areas of science, including Earth and space science, physics, and chemistry. See how the Earth's tilt (23.5 degrees), for example, causes the changing...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Kids 8.1: Earth's Rotation & Revolution

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the Earth's rotation and revolution and how these things contribute to night and day and how Earth's tilt gives us seasons. [4:00]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Precession Causing Perihelion to Happen Later

9th - 10th
Clarifies the effect of axial precession on the calendar and the date of perihelion and aphelion. [12:04]
Instructional Video
Make Me Genius

Makemegenius: Why Seasons Change

Pre-K - 1st
"There are four major seasons in a year- Winter, Summer, Fall, and Spring. In many places in the world rains (rainy time) are considered to be a separate season. These seasons on the earth happen due to earth's movement around the Sun...
Instructional Video
Make Me Genius

Makemegenius: Day and Night Explanation,causes Science for Kids

Pre-K - 1st
Learn why we have days and nights, the formation of day and night and other basics facts about the rotation of the earth.
Instructional Video
Rhyme Learner

Rhyme Learner: Why Do Seasons Change?

Pre-K - 1st
Learn the real reason why seasons change throughout the year.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Milankovitch Cycles Precession and Obliquity

9th - 10th
Understand how changes in Earth's rotation can effect Earth's seasons and climate in this video. [12:57]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Are Southern Hemisphere Seasons More Severe?

9th - 10th
Are Southern Hemisphere seasons more severe because of the eccentricity in Earth's orbit? [7:17]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Apsidal Precession (Perihelion Precession) and Milankovitch Cycles

9th - 10th
Learn how the Earth's tilt and rotation affect the Apsidal Precession (Perihelion Precession.) [7:06]
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Japan Earthquake May Have Changed Earth's Axis

9th - 10th
Changes on the surface can change the way the planet spins.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A Quake That Shook the World?

9th - 10th
An audio lecture exploring how a powerful earthquake in Chile may have shifted the Earth's axis and changed the length of a day. [12:02]