Hello Fabio, Frazer Elementary's 'Eagle Eyes' program seems like an excellent one for encouraging young students to widen their horizons and excel by engaging in such enrichment activities.
I found your message on paper sundials to be particularly relevant to me because I provide plans in North America by sunclocks.com for building large ground-level Customized Interactive Human Sundials, which interactively use a person's shadow to tell correct local clock time. Although our plans are for building Human Sundials of about 6 metres (20 feet) in diameter, students can very easily create their own small working models of their custom SunClock made from paper or cardboard. Of course, since these models are so simple and cheap to produce, students can each make their own to take home. Although many schools build full sized SunClocks as fun and educational DIY projects for them to complete with the students, building small scale-models is a popular teaching method for schools that don't have suitable ground area. Using a pencil as a gnomon instead of an actual person as is done with a full scale Human Sundial, they can then see for themselves that it indicates the correct time throughout the year. The SunClock also clearly demonstrates the changing seasons during the year by the movement of it's gnomon along the central Date-scale. Ciao, Paul Ratto SunClocks North America 438-792-4823 On Jan 7, 2014, at 4:27 PM, "Fabio nonvedolora" <fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it> wrote: > hi all > > I’m in contact with Judy Birmingham (jmbirm...@gmail.com), a teacher of the > Frazer Elementary School, Canton, Ohio. > She found the paper sundials of Sundal Atlas and contacted me to have more > info, she thinks to use them for an educational project. > I suggested her to report her activity here, may be someone is interested to > exchange info about educational initiatives, I report a piece of her email: > > We are just doing a short unit on sundials, as part of our study of the > Renaissance in England and, Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. The name of our > school is Frazer Elementary School, in Canton, Ohio. My students are a small > group of advanced 4th-grader (ages 9-10), and I just meet with them once or > twice a week to provide enrichment activities and keep them challenged. The > shortcut to our website is http://eagleeyes.shorturl.com. > > Over that to make paper sundials, she used the same drawings (the horizontal > ones) to mould clay models. I uploaded some photos in the home page of > Sundial Atlas www.sundialatlas.eu > > ciao Fabio > > Fabio Savian > fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it > www.nonvedolora.eu > Paderno Dugnano, Milano, Italy > 45° 34' 10'' N, 9° 10' 9'' E, GMT+1 (DST +2)
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