We got our monthly fire drill in this morning and I am VERY IMPRESSED with how my first block (Ms. Carpenter's homeroom) did. Excellent! For that, they earned some well-deserved free time at the end of the period - that and for doing a great job in math and science.
In science I demonstrated how the tilt of the Earth's axis is the reason for the seasons. For the first part of the experiment, I had a globe with the southern hemisphere tilted towards a flashlight to represent the sun. Since it gets more direct light, it should be warmer. I then used an IR thermometer to take temperature readings of both the northern and southern hemispheres. Sure enough, there was a difference in the temperatures though it was slight since I used just a flashlight for a short period of time. But, it showed that while the southern hemisphere was in summer, the northern hemisphere was in winter due to less direct sunlight, which is exactly where we are right now.
Afterwards, I tilted the northern hemisphere towards the flashlight to simulate summer in the northern hemisphere and repeated the process.
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