Reading the Sun's Calendar
Interactive worksheet with auto-grading, instant feedback, and printable PDF.
- Format
- Interactive (Online), Printable (PDF)
- Grades
- 678
- Subjects
- science
- Standards
- NGSS MS-ESS1-1; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7
What's included
About this worksheet
Turn data into evidence with this scaffolded graphing worksheet for grades 6-8. Students plot real day-length data for two cities at the same latitude north and south — Minneapolis and Christchurch — and discover that the two curves are near-perfect mirror images that cross at the equinoxes.
The activity builds the analysis skills your standards demand: read a data table, plot two lines on a shared grid, label the solstice and equinox points, and interpret the pattern. A claim-evidence-reasoning prompt asks students to use the graph to explain why January is winter in the north but summer in the south — proving the seasons come from tilt, not distance.
Includes a blank grid for students and an answer key with the completed graph. Aligned to NGSS MS-ESS1-1. Print and teach.
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