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Hi, what's a solar cap?
On 5/13/2010 11:45 AM, Liz Kelley wrote:
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> Do you have an extra solar cap? We let the kids look through that at the sun while they're waiting in line. How about printing out a bunch of copies of these sundial templates on card stock and letting the kids fiddle around with them? http://www.mysundial.ca/sdu/sdu_sundial_kits.html That website has very simple to extremely advanced sundials.
> Good luck, fingers crossed for no clouds!
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> Liz Kelley
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> The Franklin Institute
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>> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:18:31 -0700
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>> Subject: Keep 7th Graders Busy While Waiting in Line (Astronomy)
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>> Tomorrow I'm going to help a local school by talking about the sun.
>> Afterwards we will go out an observe it with a solar telescope. One of
>> the organizers wants to know if I can keep the kids in line busy at
>> something. Any ideas? The only thing I can think of at the moment, is to
>> ask them to identify as many common products that have at astronomical
>> name. Comet cleaner, Ford Galaxy, ...
>>
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Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
"I would rather discover a single fact, even a
small one, than debate the great issues at length
without discovering anything small." -- Galileo
Web Page:<www.speckledwithstars.net/>
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