chapter 5 – a round earth l17

Chapter 5 – A Round EarthChapter 5 – A Round EarthLesson 17 – Round Like a Ball

What is Earth’s shape?What is Earth’s shape?

Is the Earth round like a plate or round like a ball?

What is Earth’s shape?What is Earth’s shape?

Astronauts see a round Earth from space, but most people see a flat Earth.

How can this be?

What is Earth’s shape?What is Earth’s shape?

Most people see a flat Earth

because they see only a small

part of it.

What is Earth’s shape?What is Earth’s shape?

Astronauts see a round Earth because they see the whole thing!

The Earth is round…The Earth is round…

but is it round like a plate or round like a ball?

How do we know the shape of the Earth?How do we know the shape of the Earth?

Isaiah 40:22

It is He that sits upon the circle of the Earth.

What have you learned?What have you learned?

Why do astronauts see the Earth as round?

Because they see the whole thing!

What have you learned?What have you learned?

Why does the Earth seem flat to us?

We only see a small part of it.

What have you learned?What have you learned?

What does a globe tell you about the shape of the Earth?

It is round like a ball.

Good Job!Good Job!

You have completed this lesson.

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