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Constellation Worksheets

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Geography Class for the SkyIn school, we teach children basic geography because we want them to be familiar with the arrangement of their world, and be able to find their way around on a map of it. Shouldn't we want them to be familiar with the sky

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Thinking About Lunar Eclipses

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Would you like to be able to see the size and shape of our world with your own eyes? You can, during a lunar eclipse.The first scientists in history were able to figure out what causes lunar eclipses two millennia ago, with no modern technology,

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The Discovery of Germs -- eBook

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What Does it Take to Make a Scientific Discovery?For most of history, humanity was helpless in the face of plagues and epidemics. A few rare people guessed that there might be such a thing as a living thing too small to see and that such mysterious

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A Simple Equatorial Sundial

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This is a very simple paper sundial for students to cut out and assemble. It requires only cutting out a circle and a rectangle, cutting one slot, and poking one hole. This "equatorial" design of sundial consists of a disk with an axial gnomon (or

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Polyhedral Globes

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Paper PolyhedraThis PDF file contains templates to be printed, cut out, and folded into various polyhedra. Four of the simplest polyhedra are the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron, and I have included blank versions of all

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Geometry, Astronomy, Earth Sciences

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A Simple Horizontal Sundial

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This is a simple paper sundial for students to cut out and assemble. Many designs of sundial are possible -- this one represents the "traditional horizontal" design you might find in garden stores.Each sundial must be designed for the latitude in

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Homemade Globes

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How Commercial Globes Are MadeAstronomy is all about spheres, and I often wished while teaching astronomy that there was a simple way to make spherical globes or hemispherical domes in the classroom, as a fun craft project, with paper or other basic

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