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Day and Night – Worksheet

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    Updated:  04 May 2023

Encourage your students to illustrate the day and night cycle with this free worksheet.

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    Editable:  Google Slides

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    Non-Editable:  PDF

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    Pages:  1 Page

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    Grades:  3 - 5

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teaching resource

Day and Night – Worksheet

  • Updated

    Updated:  04 May 2023

Encourage your students to illustrate the day and night cycle with this free worksheet.

  • Editable

    Editable:  Google Slides

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  1 Page

  • Curriculum
  • Grades

    Grades:  3 - 5

Encourage your students to illustrate the day and night cycle with this free worksheet.

What Causes Day and Night?

Is this a question that has been popping up in your science class? If you are teaching about the day and night cycle, your students will more than likely have questions about this topic. Let’s take a quick look at what causes our skies to move from light to dark each day.

Day and night are caused by the rotation of the Earth on its axis. The Earth rotates once every 24 hours, or one day. As the Earth rotates, different parts of the planet receive sunlight while others are in darkness, creating the day and night cycle.

The reason for this is that the Earth is a sphere, so only half of the planet can face the sun at any given time. As the Earth rotates on its axis, the part of the planet facing the sun experiences daylight, while the part facing away from the sun experiences darkness, or night.

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