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Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness
In this Kindergarten through 5th grade video, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doingactivities like playing baseball and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Cycles in the Sky
Take a look at the cyclical phenomena at work in the universe. Learn about the subtle changes in the sky that take place over time as the Earth circles the sun, following along the ecliptic. Learn how the tilt of the Earth's axis has a...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Introduction to Astronomy
Host Phil Plait explains the nature and origins of the field of astronomy. Learn how ancient humans observed the sky and associated the patterns they found there with farming and the seasons on Earth. Early astronomers developed an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: The Leaf Game
Daniel turns leaf watching into a fun color game. Help kids identify different colored leaves and use them for an art project or game. Includes a link to a supplemental activity. [1:28]
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Pbs Learning Media: Hungry Beasts
Learn about the wildebeest and locusts on the move in this video segment from Nature. [2:47]
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Pbs Learning Media: Planetary Moves
This video segment from Nature offers an introduction to four species' migratory patterns. [2:05]
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Seasons
The video teaches the names of the four seasons, their weather, the time at which they come in a year, seasonal changes, and activities we do in each season. [2:21]
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: The Four Seasons
A fun learning video intended to teach the four seasons.
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 11.1: Seasons and the Sun
Ever wonder why we have seasons? A lot of people think it's because the Earth gets further away from the sun in winter, and closer in the summer. But, it's actually more interesting than that. In this episode of Crash Course Kids,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 8.1: Earth's Rotation & Revolution
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]
Other
Kurdistan Planetarium: Mechanism of the Seasons
Find out what makes different areas on Earth experience four seasons. [5:59]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Precession Causing Perihelion to Happen Later
Clarifies the effect of axial precession on the calendar and the date of perihelion and aphelion. [12:04]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Measurement: Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons
How can it be summer in North America and winter in Australia at the same time?! Discover the reason for the seasons. [5:39]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Earth's Seasons Aren't Dictated by Closeness to Sun
Explains why Earth's closeness to the Sun does not dictate the seasons. [4:38]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Are Southern Hemisphere Seasons More Severe?
Are Southern Hemisphere seasons more severe because of the eccentricity in Earth's orbit? [7:17]
Learning Junction
Learning Junction: Seasons in Earth
In this video, the season are defined as "four divisions of the year marked by particular weather patterns n daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun."
Rhyme Learner
Rhyme Learner: Why Do Seasons Change?
Learn the real reason why seasons change throughout the year.
PBS
Pbs: About the Seasons
A short video explaining the seasons and how nature changes within the year. Video also discusses how we change to adapt to the different seasons. [3:00]
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Animation of the Biosphere
This animation shows where and when photosynthesis happens around the world as the seasons come and go.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Changing Daylight in Summer and Winter
Observe the effect of Earth's tilt on the amount of daylight that occurs in the northern and southern hemispheres with these videos and diagrams. This resource provides opportunities for students to observe, ask questions, and construct...
Other
Pancake Manor: Seasons Song: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer
Zach and Reggie love all four seasons. Spring! Summer! Autumn! Winter! A fun, upbeat, and original Pancake Manor song. [2:22]
Other
Brad Freese: Earth's Tilt and the Seasons
This brief animation will help clarify how the tilt of Earth's axis causes the change of seasons. [0:34]
Other
A Book of Seasons
A reading of the classic children's book A Book of Seasons by Alice & Martin Provensen. Their charming illustrations bring life to all four seasons of the year! Read by Tara Rose Stromberg. [5:47]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Earth & the Solar System
In this video, Paul Andersen explains the parts of the Solar System; including the planets, dwarf planets, moons and asteroids. He explains how everything orbits around the Sun and how a proper understanding of this heliocentric model...