You and i know a lot about science. In fact, that is the problem. We often get concepts mixed up and try to apply 'one idea' where another belongs. Some people call such struggles to give the correct answer a misconception. Others say it is a "mixed-conception." Still another way of looking at these ideas is to call them "intelligent wrong answers."

Let's take an inventory.

• why is is hotter in the summer than in the winter ?
• what is the astronomical basis for "one month?"
• why is a year 365.25 days?"

Your answers to the above questions reflect your mental reflections on cause-effect.

Read these articles and state how you will conduct your classroom to first --

• inventory
  and then to
• remediate their not-quite-correct view of the world.