dear all, thank you very much again for all your positive reactions, hints, links, mails etc.
We all enjoyed it very much and I think I learned a lot. We had four hours time, I did one hour of "theory" (what is a sundial and how does it work in principle) and then we went down to the garage/studio to work on wooden sundials. I am more entusiastic on the theory than they are, but they enjoyed the manual work very much. Still it is important that I have a very good and determined guidline in my pocket, so when they do not have their own ideas or are not creative enough they still have something to do and know their target. And I should prepare for the next time a set of printed vertical sundials such that everyone can use his own model. (I had only one and when they copied it for the prototype, they made a little mistake, so all dial were wrong and we had to correct this later.) So it was big fun and I hope that some of the kids are now more curious on sundials. You can see some photos at http://picasaweb.google.com/finbref/Sonnenuhrprojekt (I hope you can see this gallery) Thomas 2009/6/24 Thomas Steiner <finbref.2...@gmail.com>: > @John: > this is a good idea and in fact what I want: they should get curious > about sundials and understand the basics such that they will be > capable to create their own design and shape of a sundial, eg as you > described! > > @Edley: > With Donald's help you could see what I have in mind. > > @Donald: > Thanks for helping and I will try to learn myself as much as possible > as well; but it's only half a day though... > > @Carl: > Thank you, your site is really great. I wanted to make something out > of wood or so, not paper. But your ring sundial looks so cool, I will > propose this one to the kids as well. > > I will post my experiences and our success here on the mailinglist > when we finished the project: thanks for all your ideas and help! > Thomas > > > 2009/6/24 Thomas Steiner <finbref.2...@gmail.com>: >> John, Edley, Don, Carl, Roderick, Andrew, Bill, ... >> Thank you very much for all your answers. I will look at them in >> detail tonight after work! :)) >> Thomas >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=48.129&mlon=15.127&zoom=15&layers=0B00FTF >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de >>> [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de]on Behalf Of Thomas Steiner >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:38 AM >>> To: Sundial Mailing List >>> Subject: pupil project >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> I will hold a half-day project with students next Monday. The first >>> 60min we will try to understand what sundials are and how they work. >>> After that we have two and a half hour to create sundials on our own. >>> My proposal is to make something like this here: >>> http://picasaweb.google.com/finbref/Sonnenuhren#5310855902443813522 >>> These ten guys are 15 years old and have some experience with manual >>> working (most of them are farmer's children). >>> If you have ever done something like that or if you have other ideas >>> or proposals I'd be very happy to hear from you! >>> Thomas >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >> > --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
