Day & Night Project Questions

Day and Night

Use your amazing research skills to uncover the following things about day and night.

·         What is the day and night cycle? What causes day and night (2 points)?

·         Does the sun really set (1 point)?

·         Why does the sun always shine on some part of the world? (1 point)

·         What changes throughout the day and night? (1 point)

·         How long does it take the Earth to rotate once? (1 point)

·         Why do the stars seem to move across the sky at night? (1 point)

·         When we have day, who has night? (1 point)

·         Include at least one other interesting fact you discovered about the cycle of day and night (1 point) and include pictures of the sun, the moon and Earth (1 point).

HINT: Here are some useful websites that might help:

http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/