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You do not need a complex 3d model, very simple illustrations show it well. https://kidspressmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/dreamstimelarge_25781691-c

• eru 2y ago
  I'm not sure about 'complex'. Something three-dimensional that you can interact with often help people's intuition more and more quickly than a 2d static illustration. I know how the season's work, so I find the illustrations you linked to clear. But OptionOfT complained that they never understood the explanation in high school (and that looking at the lego model was enough), and presumably they had at least a static 2d illustration in the text book. (For example your second link https://scitechdaily.com/images/Earths-Seasons-Tilt-scaled.jpg https://scitechdaily.com/images/Earths-Seasons-Tilt-scaled.j... doesn't really make clear that the angle between earth's axis (pointing north) and direction between earth-and-sun change throughout the year. Your first link tries to make that a bit clearer, but it's still hard to interpret, if you don't already understand the mechanism.)