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title: "Day and Night- Science in Team Starlings"
url: "https://www.streethayprimary.org.uk/blog/2024-01-31-09-43-47-day-and-night-science-in-team-starlings"
school: "Streethay Primary School"
---

# Day and Night- Science in Team Starlings

  ![Image of Day and Night- Science in Team Starlings](https://files.schudio.com/streethay-primary-school/images/blog/science_blog.png)  31 January 2024   [Streethay Primary](https://www.streethayprimary.org.uk/blog/author/Streethay)

This week in Team Starlings, we have been learning about the Earth's axis, tilt, rotation, and orbit. We have used plasticine balls and torches to help us understand why we have day and night- demonstrating how when the earth rotates, half faces towards the sun, (daytime), and half faces away from the sun, (night.) We then moved our Earths around the "sun" , (torch), taking care to keep our axis tilted, which showed us why we have summer and winter as the Earth orbits the sun.

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