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Why Do We Have Day And Night?

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Second graders demonstrate knowledge and appropriate use of hardware components, software programs, and their connections. After a lecture/demo, student groups utilize raisins and apples to demonstrate day and night. They put togethre a PowerPoint show.

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night, day, the earth's rotation

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day, earth's rotation, night, science
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2nd
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Science
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