Churchill Science

Here’s one of the video clips we watched about deserts – Click on the link to play it.

Planet Earth

Cluster B recently began its study of ecosystems. Within each class, a small team of students will be responsible for documenting and presenting information about an ecosystem – the four we’ll focus on the most are forests, oceans, deserts, and the Antarctic.

Our first task was to figure out why these ecosystems have different climates. To do this, we needed to learn about the Earth and how it rotates around the Sun. Here are some of the games we played together.

Explore a model of Earth’s yearly revolution around the Sun:

Here’s another site showing the same idea – this one automatically stops at the dates when the seasons officially “change”.

We also helped everyone’s favorite annoying traveler, Max, visit specific places on Earth during specific seasons:

Finally, this site shows the Earth as it looks right now. You can see where it is day or night, look at a globe or a flat map, and even choose which satellite you’d like to look from.