• Use this as a lesson opener to introduce how our seasons work. Have students pair up and complete the slides.
• Display this on your SmartBoard while your students follow along on their devices. Complete the activity together.
• My students use this activity as a review after a more thorough lesson on Earth’s Seasons. This is the lesson I use in my class prior to this one.
• Save this resource and use is as a lesson for a substitute. Make your life easier and save time on sub plans!
• Students can complete the last slides on their own and take a screenshots of them. They can turn the screenshots in to you through your Learning Management System for whatever grade you choose for them.
• OR, same as above, but instead of a grade, students take their screenshots (or just one chosen screenshot) and share it on a saved class chat for the rest of the class to see how they did. Students can self-grade each other!

Perfect for your classroom, this Seasons Lesson features four slides:

• slide 1 is for guided instruction. This means you can use it as a lesson, for sub plans, or for review!
• slides 2-4 are designed for independent learning and review. These slides are self-checking, students will know if they have mastered each slide. Colorful and interactive, this activity will help your students understand the tilt of the Earth is responsible for the seasons.

This digital Earth’s Seasons lesson is downloadable instantly as a Google Slides document. It is extremely easy to save as a PowerPoint in just a few clicks.  This makes it simple to use with any Learning Management System!

Students will learn:

1. Earth revolves around the sun in a prograde (counterclockwise) revolution.
2. Earth revolves in an elliptical pattern around the sun.
3. The seasons are caused by Earth’s tilt.
4. The tropic of Cancer and tropic of Capricorn are lines of importance because of Earth’s tilt.
5. The Arctic Circle and Antarctic circle are lines of importance because of Earth’s tilt.