Students today were challenged to redefine how they view our planet earth. It is actually a tiny object in a vast universe. We learned that earth is perfectly placed 93 million miles from the sun. This distance creates the ideal conditions for life here on our planet. Students were given the analogy of sitting around a campfire, too close and its too hot, too far away and it is too cold. The same goes for our planet's relationship to the sun! I challenged the students to think of our earth as a body in motion. It moves in two ways. It revolves around the sun and rotates on it's axis! Each student was challenged to think about how the way earth moves impacts their life by giving us days and nights as well as impacts the seasons of the year. Earth...we like the way you move!
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