Does anyone know of any good webites that I can show my 5yr old, how the sun/moon day/night the world works?? I've tried to explain but it's a difficult concept to grasp and she wont take "ask me again in 3 years" as an answer!
(I hope i've put this under the right catagory!)
2006-10-27 03:06:50 · 5 answers · asked by K-9 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The concepts are not so hard for a 5 year old, EXCEPT the part about the Earth being round and down is toward the center of the globe. Kids always want to know why people at the south pole don't fall off the Earth. The idea of the horizon being a plane tangent to the globe at your location is also confusing for them.
You can take a globe and a baseball outside and show how they are lit up on only one side by the sun. By the way, the baseball Moon should be about 30 feet from the Earth globe to be at the correct scale, but you can make it closer for convenience. Don't make it one or two feet though. Maybe 5 or 10 feet would be OK. Do this on a clear day in the morning or evening when the Sun is low in the sky. Find your location on the globe and then rotate it to show how that location is sometimes in the shade and sometimes in the sunlight. Then look at the baseball from different directions to simulate the phases of the Moon. Also, note the phase and position of the baseball in relation to direction to the Sun. Look at the real Moon on different days to see the connection. A crescent baseball (or Moon) is seen close to the Sun but a full baseball (or Moon) is seen opposite the Sun in the sky.
2006-10-27 03:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try the BBC they are usually good at this type of thing. My daughters class discussed it last year at nursery so there is information out there to help. Alternatively its a trip to the library as they will definitely have age appropriate material
2006-10-27 03:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by StephE 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont know of any websites but try going on ajkids.com and searching it on there. Hope it helps
2006-10-27 03:12:33 · answer #3 · answered by Steven Kennedy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.jgiesen.de/SME/index.htm
This site is definitely good.
You'll have to download the applet. No prob.
2006-10-27 03:17:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ye type in www.bbc.co.uk/space
it will tell you all plus at any level you want
2006-10-28 23:26:24 · answer #5 · answered by FlyingPm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋