Description
Information includes:
- The Sun as a major source of energy
- What is energy?
- The Earth’s rotation on its axis
- Seasons caused by the Earth’s tilt
- Exploring months and the seasonal changes that occur
- Regions of the world: tropic, mid-latitudinal, arctic and antarctic and the seasons in accordance with each location (e.g. wet and dry; polar day and polar night; summer, autumn winter, and spring)
- Day and night caused by rotation of the Earth
- Difference between a solar eclipse and lunar eclipse
- Relative sizes and the movement of the Earth and the Sun
- Seasonal calendars used by Aboriginal and Tories Strait Islander People
