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Go to Grolier- New Book of
Knowledge and Daylight Saving Time Begins and
go to that article http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html 1. What does daylight savings time do? __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ .
2. When does daylight savings time start? _________________________________________________________________.
3. Why do we have daylight savings time? ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________.
4. Who had the idea for daylight savings time? ____________________________________________________________ .
5. Why did he think it was a good idea? __________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. In the United States, daylight saving time is not observed in _________________________________________________.
7. What is the controversy about daylight savings time? ______________________________________________________
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8. What interesting fact do you learn about daylight savings time? ________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ .
Go to Grolier- New Book of Knowledge, type Seasons in the search box and choose the first article in the list, Seasons. Here are some other sites for your reading interest: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/seasons1.html&edu=mid http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/wbkids/k_equinox.html http://www.geography4kids.com/files/climate_seasons.html http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/07/season.html http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/seasons.html
1. Earth’s
_______________________________________ is the path Earth takes around the sun. 2. Earth’s _______________________________________ is the way Earth spins on its axis.
3. The seasons are caused by the tilt of Earth’s __________________________, and Earth’s__________________ around the sun.
4. When Earth’s Northern
Hemisphere points toward the sun, ________________________ occurs in the
Northern Hemisphere and
5. Near the ____________________________ places get about the same amount of sunlight and have the same temperature all year long.
6. How many hours of daylight occur on the first day of spring? __________________________ .
7. What is the day with the most hours of daylight called? _______________________________ .
8. Which season begins on the vernal equinox? _______________________________________ .
In the Seasons article, click on the purple FEATURE button.
9. What does the word solstice mean? _____________________________________________ .
10. What does the word equinox mean? ____________________________________________ .
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