What causes day and night?
A: The Earth goes around the Sun once every day
B: The Earth spins and completes one turn a day
C: At night the Moon is in front of the Sun and blocks light
D: The Sun goes around the Earth
I would use this at the beginning of the topic to find out about their ideas. The misconceptions were taken from the IOP Supporting physics teaching files. I would use a class demo to illustrate the correct answer (B).
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Dear aegilopoides,
Really nice question! Do you think you could use this as inspiration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ
and come up with a similar question about the causes of the seasons?
Paul