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For lessons with kids, I've been using an old, beat-up 12"/33cm globe. It's split open several times, been taped and glued, and it's falling apart again.

So, I'm looking to replace it. An ideal replacement would be:

-- big enough to see from all corners of a large room. the aforementioned 12"/33cm at least.

-- Graphically bold and simple. Bright blue oceans, brown-green land. No need for all the detail on a regular globe, and the existing one is a little low-contrast.

-- Not too simple. What geographic features, cities, etc. there are should be accurately depicted. No nubbly Floridas or vague, paint-spatter Indonesias.

-- Rigid, ideally hollow. Inflatables deflate, they also are too tempting to throw around.

-- Easily modified. The old globe has (rapidly enlarging) holes cut in the poles to make "rotating the Earth" easier. Also, you can put a figure of a little person on it, held in place by magnets, on the inside and outside, and move her around.

-- cheap (of course)

Your suggestions welcome...

Marc Taylor
Coordinator, Andrus Planetarium
Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Avenue
Yonkers, NY 10701
914 963 4550 x223
Fax 963 8558
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