Day & Night, Sunrise & Sunset Explained for Kids. 3D animation & video examples.

If your kid has grown big enough to start asking serious questions like:
Why do we have daytime & nighttime?
What is the day? And what is the night?
Or funny questions like: “why do I have to go to sleep??”
Then, probably it is time now to help him understand all of this.

In this video, you will find a 3D animation of how Sun is causing the day & nights cycles for our planet Earth.

For a better understanding, at the beginning at this video, your child will be introduced to 4 main facts which are related to the day & night cycle:
1st fact:
The shape of our planet Earth is spherical, almost same as a ball.
2nd fact:
The Earth is continuously spinning around its own invisible axis, that crosses the planet in the middle, from North Pole to South Pole.
3rd fact:
The universe is a giant dark place.
Without the light from the sun, it would be just a continuous night on our planet.
4th fact and the last one:
Just like a flashlight which will enlighten, just half of a ball in the darkness, the same way the light, which is coming from the sun, is lighting only half of our planet’s surface. That means, the only part which faces the sun is having the daytime, while the other part, which is in shade, is having the nighttime.
The explanation moves forward with an example, a place from the Earth, where someone might live.
Marked with a flag, so that we can easily be noticed throughout the presentation, your child will assist at how the flag is spinning and moving through the daylight and night, due to planet Earth’s rotation.
But what about how the days and nights are starting?
We have that also covered, by pointing out the border line between daytime and nighttime and how people leaving in that area, experience the sunrise or the sunset.

By the end of this video, your child will be amazed how simple was to understand it all of these.