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Day and Night: Earth's Rotation

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This printable science worksheet introduces 3rd graders to why Earth's rotation causes day and night. Students read an explanation of how Earth spins and the sun appears to move across the sky, label a diagram, and complete fill-in-the-blank sentences using the vocabulary words Earth and rotates. Useful for science instruction, review, or homework in earth science units.

Subject:: Science
Topic:: Earth Science
Grade Level:: 3rd Grade
Updated June 2026

Word Bank

Earth : the planet we live on Rotates : spins around

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