![]() ![]() Then the Sun seems to sink in the sky and we have sunset, we can’t see the sun any more, but we have midnight and then the sun looks like it rises and we have dawn again’. Say, ‘Here we have light and here we have darkness, here we have dawn and the sun seems to move higher in the sky till at noon we have midday, at midday the sun is directly over head. We have the same impression that the sun is moving when really but is the Earth that is moving.’ ‘ The Sun doesn’t actually move, we just think it does, it is a bit like travelling on a train, it looks like the trees and the houses and the fields are flying past, but really it is us that is moving. Point at a variety of places while doing this. So in some parts of the Earth it is dawn, in another place it is midday, in another place sunset and in other places it is midnight’. Pick a country and, while rotating comment on it’s movement in and out of the lights say, ‘We can see that Germany has gone into the dark, now we see it coming into the light, now we have dawn, it moves further into the light, giving us noon or midday, now it moves towards the end of the light, we have sunset, then midnight, then dawn, noon, sunset, midnight. We know that the Earth rotates around itself and it is happening all the time, we know this as day and night’. Rotate the globe from west to east, say, ‘here we see the Earth coming into the light and here we see some of the Earth going into the dark’. Turn on the lamp, ‘ We know the Earth moves around the Sun’. Say, ‘The Sun radiates heat from all it’s surfaces in all directions, the Earth only receives a very little part of it, some people think that the Earth only receives a two-billionths of the sun’s heat, can you imagine getting all of that heat, what would happen if the earth did not rotate? On one side of the earth the people, the plants and the animals would all burn up and on the other side they would all freeze’.ĭemonstration using a globe and a stationary lamp, say, ‘The Sun can only light up one part of the earth at a time, the part facing it. Remember last summer, think of the hottest day, it was very hot’. ![]() I wonder what would happen if the Earth did not spin. Say, ‘It has done this from the beginning and it still does it today. Say, ‘Now the Earth not only dances around the Sun, it is so happy to be born that it dances around and around itself something like this’. Say, ‘The Earth with all the people, plants and animals is turning around and around the Sun, like this’.ĭemonstration Spin the tennis ball on a swing around your head Tennis ball on a string, Charts 7a to 10a, globe, stationary lamp The Two Movements of the Earth and the Rotation Work It relates to the, ‘God with No Hands Story rocks, water, air, solids, liquids, gasses, today as it was yesterday and millions of years ago, the laws are obeyed in the same way, the world spins around and around itself and around and around the sun’. This chapter focuses on the relationship between the sun and the earth, it is a key chapter in Geography. ![]()
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