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You might want to check out what TOPS Learning Systems has to offer. Go to www.topscience.org and scroll down the left side to their book #40 on Sun, Moon, and Planets (about $15 and well worth it!). It contains detailed guides to a large number of simple classroom-made instruments utilizing common materials, including masters for your Xeroxing of various calibrated scales and patterns for class distribution, and detailed instructions on how students can use them in a learning situation.
This is the next best thing to your hoped-for "bag of sextants" and may be even better, since kids can build them and then use them and take them home.
Al Read
Director, Science Discovery Center of Oneonta, NY
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:08 PM
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> Subject: sextant kits?
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> For an upcoming 5th grade school/museum collaboration:
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> I'm looking for a good source of inexpensive kits which can
> be used to make sextants or octants or similar instruments.
>
> I have a book, Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings, which has
> instructions on making simple navigational instruments, but I
> was hoping to get a ready-made, kid-tested "bag o'sextants"
> kit. Creating my own might take until next Talk Like a Pirate
> Day. Anyone ever heard of such a thing?
>
> Marc Taylor
> Coordinator, Andrus Planetarium
> Hudson River Museum
> 511 Warburton Avenue
> Yonkers, NY 10701
> 914 963 4550 x223
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