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Lesson Plans - Seasons: Why It's Essential. Grades 9-12 Overview: High school students should have a clear understanding of why the seasons occur and should be able to articulate this concept to others. This lesson reinforces this knowledge by having students review the basics of the seasons and design their own monuments to keep track of and commemorate the seasons.

In the process students will review their understanding of the science behind the seasons, learn some theories about Stonehenge, Medicine Wheel, and other monuments, and reflect on their own culture's methods of commemorating the passing of the seasons. Connections to the Curriculum: Geography, earth science, history Connections to the National Geography Standards: Standard 7: "The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface" Standard 17: "How to apply geography to interpret the past" Time: Two to three hours Materials Required: Computer with Internet access Writing and drawing materials Objectives: Geographic Skills: S u g g e s t e d P r o c e d u r e. Climate Maps - Temperature Latest. Skip to main content Home About Contacts NSW Weather & Warnings Warnings Summary Forecasts Sydney Forecast NSW Forecast Area Map Observations Sydney Observations All NSW Observations Rainfall & River Conditions VIC Weather & Warnings Melbourne Forecast Vic.

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Miriwoong Seasonal Calendar. The Lost Seasons - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science. Hundreds of years ago, the seasons in Australia were marked by local events like sharks breeding and wattle flowering. The indigenous people had a good empirical knowledge of their local weather. Today science is finally acknowledging the validity of indigenous weather knowledge. Danny Kingsley reports on the new partnership between ancient wisdom and modern science. Australia is a large continent, with very different weather patterns all over it, yet since European occupation, the 'traditional' view of the weather has been that of the Northern Hemisphere, with four seasons; Spring, Summer, Winter and Autumn.

Some people argue that Canberra is one of the only places in the country that can genuinely claim to experience all four seasons. Everywhere else, the weather is localised and different. Up north in Australia there are two seasons, 'the wet' and 'the dry'. Systematic documentation The inspiration Sharing the Knowledge "The knowledge runs through women. Signs the seasons are changing. Isothermal map. Home.

About NASA Education. Seasons of the Year. Seasons on Other Planets. Students 5-8. National Geographic - Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888. Grasslands. Grasslands go by many names. In the U.S. Midwest, they're known as prairies. In South America, they're called pampas. Central Eurasian grasslands are referred to as steppes, while in Africa they're named savannas.

What they all have in common is grass as their naturally dominant vegetation. Grasslands are found where there is not enough regular rainfall to support the growth of a forest, but not so little as to form a desert. In fact, most grasslands are located between forests and deserts. There are two different kinds of grasslands: tropical and temperate. Tropical grasslands are warm year round, but usually have a dry and a rainy season. Temperate grasslands, which average between 10 and 30 inches (25 and 75 centimeters) of rain per year, have shorter grasses, sometimes just a few millimeters. The animals that live in temperate grasslands have adapted to the dry, windy conditions. No other habitat is as agriculturally useful to humans as grasslands. Activities - Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com.

Your Mission Become a season sleuth. Learn the long and short of the changing of the seasons, then test your knowledge with our cosmic map. Briefing In most regions of the Earth, the cycle of the year can be separated into four distinct seasons: summer, autumn, winter, and spring. Each season brings with it distinct changes in weather, temperatures, and length of daylight. Ever wonder why this is so? If your answer is yes, you're not the only one. The ancient Greeks thought that the seasons owed their existence to an unfortunate marriage between Persephone (per–SEFF–uh–nee), the daughter of the goddess of the harvest, and Hades (HAY–deez), the god of the underworld. If you asked ancient Navajo Indians, they would tell you that the seasons are caused by Estsanatlehi, the wife of the sun god Tsohanoai. The Earth rotates on an axis that is tilted. The changing position of the Earth's tilt is the reason for the differences in temperature and length of daylight that distinguish the seasons.