Those of you who’ve been following my weblog with regularity over the past couple of years have in all probability seen my casual collection of posts titled Questions from My Daughters. Those posts have been about answering the questions that my daughters (now ages 5 and 6) ask me. Questions like “what do worms eat?” and “what are freckles?” have been answered in these posts. Well now it is time to begin a brand new collection that I’m going to name Corrections from My Daughters.
Over the weekend it grew to become obvious that my daughters have reached the part of childhood through which they prefer to be very exact with their phrases and need their mother and father to do the identical. This was revealed once I was lamenting the shortage of snow that we have had right here in Maine to date this winter. As quickly because the phrases had been out of my mouth my oldest daughter mentioned, “properly Dad, it is nonetheless autumn.” Her youthful sister shortly confirmed that I used to be fallacious to say that it was winter as a result of winter would not begin till December twenty first (as she discovered at college final week).
All of the above is to introduce my quick assortment of assets for instructing and studying about winter.
Why do we’ve got seasons? What causes the modifications in climate patterns all through the seasons? The solutions to these questions and extra are discovered within the following SciShow Kids video and Crash Course Kids video.
Why the Full Moon Is Better In Winter is an efficient companion useful resource to go together with these movies featured above.