Our winter is just starting in the Northern Hemisphere, but in fact our days are now getting longer, so we can celebrate the holiday season with the certain knowledge that spring is coming.
To help you enjoy the holidays, we made this animation to explain why we have seasons.
Source for landscape planetarium views used in video: http://www.stellarium.org/
At Victory, we’re always trying to look at the big picture and make meaningful connections back to the work we do in education.
Hopefully, you just watched our animation.
Below is a Flash interactive that let’s you play with some of these same concepts. We’d love to hear your thoughts on when an interactive is the best approach, and when a video might be better.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Seasons and Ecliptic Simulator (Flash):
