Celebrating the Solstice and Equinox
Cindy Fry, Sandy Kelnhofer, Barbara Quintasket
Paschal Sherman Indian School, Omak, Washington

Required Materials

• The Colville story, “Winter Months”
• Okanogan Salish words for months (JPG)
• Okanogan Salish words for seasons (JPG) (PDF)
• “Number of Hours of Daylight” worksheet (PDF)

Web sites

NASA Kids – Provides explanation of seasonal changes
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/News/1999/News-equinox.asp

NASA Kids: Earth’s Seasons – Contains a short video clip that shows the causes of changes in the seasons
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/earth/seasons/EarthSeasons.asp

US Naval Observatory’s Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day – Provides sunset and sunrise times for any day
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html#forma

Earth and Moon Viewer – Shows views of Earth and Moon for any day and time
www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth

NASA’s Thursday’s Classroom – This site has lessons that reinforce the concept of why we have seasons
www.ThursdaysClassroom.com

Winds of Change CD – Contains a variety of excellent images and activities. Can be obtained free from a NASA Educational Resource Center, or ordered electronically by sending a message to pcfalcon@mail1.jpl.nasa.gov
http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/education/