Changing Constellations

by: Page Keeley and Cary Sneider

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why different constellations are visible in different seasons.

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