Sundials for teaching

2011-04-25 Thread Tony Moss
Hi all, I was most grateful to have Martina's constructive feedback on the strengths and weaknesses of my MultiDial as she sees it from a teacher's angle. Her point that the dial in the jpeg I provided was for a fixed latitude is well made and very easily addressed. Two attempts to

Re: Sundials for teaching

2011-04-25 Thread Martina Addiscott
In message 4db5c3a7.1040...@lindisun.demon.co.uk Tony Moss t...@lindisun.demon.co.uk wrote: I'm entirely in agreement with Jack Aubert about analemmatic dials for teaching purposes (having made or contributed to four of them myself). They are great fun and children love them but

Re: Sundials for teaching

2011-04-25 Thread Brent
Martina Addiscott wrote: Whether the children have actually 'learned' anything (or even properly understood the concept), is largely irrelevant - just so long as we can demonstrate (to OFSTED inspectors) that the curriculum is implemented. No doubt it is this underlying bureaucracy which