Learning at Home week 10: Seasons, Light and Space
This list contains resources suitable for children learning at home. They link to the BBC Bitesize Daily Science programme for week 9 on seasons, light and space.
Seasonal Changes
Seasons- Ages 5-7
This resource looks at how weather and daylight length change with the different season. It consists of a template for a four seasons disc, which shows four different times in the day and what we may observe at these times during the different seasons. Key vocabulary is provided which may be cut out and placed on the relevant season.
Making Shadow Puppets
Light - Ages 7-9
In this cross curricular activity, children learn about light and shadows by creating shadow puppets which tell the story of a myth or legend. It also shows how to set up a shadow theatre to tell the story using everyday materials. A second activity explores how shadows are produced and how shadows change over the course of a day.
Day, night, and the seasons
Space- Ages 9-11
In this short animation Paxi, the ESA mascot, explores the Earth's orbit to tell us about day, night and the seasons. Paxi goes on holiday and tells us about how the Sun is a star and gives us light and heat. He flies into space and looks down at the Earth's spinning axis and its orbit around the sun. He explains how these two things creates day, night, years and the seasons.
