Earth, Moon and Sun Show
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 3 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 30 minutes in the Energy Lab
- Year level
- Years 3 to 6
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 15 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 100 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
This 30-minute science show uses audio-visual equipment and interactive demonstrations to explain how the Earth’s rotation on its axis affects the day and night cycle, and why we have seasons on Earth.
Victorian Curriculum links
Science
- Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day (VCSSU061)
- Predictable phenomena on Earth, including seasons and eclipses, are caused by the relative positions of the Sun, Earth and the Moon (VCSSU099)
- Heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another; a change in the temperature of an object is related to the gain or loss of heat by the object (VCSSU063)
- Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the Sun) (VCSSU078)
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