Seasons

Despite a lifetime of school, the Harvard graduates get the questions wrong based on simple astronomy. While at the same time the middle schoolers across the street are getting the same questions wrong. Here are some of those questions and my wrong answers....

1. Why do we have seasons?
     We have seasons because the Earth moves closer and further from the sun and this creates warmer and colder weather.
----The orbit is nearly circular but has no effect on the seasons.

Plate Tectonics

Modeling Plate Tectonics can be done in many fun ways for kids to better understand. In class we used grahmn crackers and frosting to model how the earth's plates can shift in different ways.


Modeling plate tectonics can be done in many ways that can help the kids better understand and also be fun for them. In class we did a model involving graham crackers ad frosting. This  modeled how the earths plates can shift in different ways and what happens to the earths crust when this happens. 
Here are some examples for the different boundaries we represented through the graham crackers and frosting ...

Divergent Boundary 

Convergent Subduction Boundary 

Convergent Collision Boundary 

Transform Sliding Boundary