![]() Winter Solstice : 21 - 22 December, the longest day and the shortest night. Summer Solstice : 21 - 22 June, the longest night and the shortest day.Ĥ. Murray Park Elementary School Quest Charter School Grades 35 748-4695 64 Sunset Avenue Ripon, WI 54971 Principal: Renee Bunge .us. Winter Solstice : 21 - 22 December, the longest night and the shortest day.Ģ. Advance in time to that date, and remind students that the solstices and equinoxes are special because of where the sun rises and sets. ![]() ![]() Autumnal Equinox: 21 - 22 September, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet.Ĥ. Exploring the Solstices and Equinoxes (20 to 30 minutes) A) Ask students when the next solstice or equinox will be. Summer Solstice : 21 - 22 June, the longest day and the shortest night.ģ. Vernal Equinox: 21 - 22 March, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet.Ģ. Material Description: Tennis ball on a string, Charts 7a to 10a, globe, stationary lamp Method: Say, ‘The Earth with all the people, plants and animals is turning around and around the Sun, like this’. The solstice (combining the Latin words sol for Sun and sistere for To Stand Still) is the point where the Sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest point in the sky for the year and thus ancient astronomers came to know the day as one where the Sun appeared to stand still. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter solstice is the shortest amount of daylight, while the Summer solstice is the most extended amount of daylight of the year. We have two solstices in June (20 or 21) and December (21 or 22). While the Equinox is the same in the northern and southern hemisphere, the longest day, and the longest night are different in different hemispheres, because the earth is tilted. That is not the case thus, we have solstices and equinoxes. The Spring Equinox occurs fourteen days after Saturn enters Pisces, eight days after Jupiter meets Chiron in Aries, less than 24 hours before the New Moon. With a simple words, Solstice and Equinox, is about the longest day in the year, the longest night in the year and the two dates when the day and the night are equal in duration.
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