Night and day

He puna Pūmanawa spent some time to understand how we see the moon at night. A globe, ball and light was used to show us. We sat in the darkest corner of the room. Mrs Chatterton shone the light on the right hand side of the globe, we then saw that the side of the globe was lit up (day) and the other side is in darkness (night). 

We could see when the earth is under the rays of the sun, it's day. The part of the earth that's in the light spins around until it's on the other side of the earth. However, there's no sunlight there, it's gone over to the dark side which is night time. Meanwhile, the section that was in the dark has also spun around, it's now under the rays of light which is daytime. 

It was a great way to see how we get night and day!