Design properties
- Name
- Navigation through the Ages
- Topic
- a sundial
- Learning time
- 4 hours
- Designed time
- 4 hours and 40 minutes
- Size of class
- 26
- Description
- 4th grade primary school
- Aims
- attracting the interest of pupils for STEM
- Outcomes
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- Knowledge understanding that the position of the sun in the sky, and the shadows it casts, could be used to make an estimate of the time of day.
- Synthesis Build some mind maps -read and study in a small group, than show your knowledge to your friends
- Comprehension watch the videos, listen the theacher's explanations and read some text about longitude and latitude
- Affective learning outcomes work in a team structure and help themselves
- Editor
- MonicaB
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Timeline
A simple sundial made with recycled materials
60 minutes)
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Produce6026
Studing of the sun, we made a sundial. Constructing our sundial was simple. We used recycled materials.
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What is a sundials?
60 minutes)
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Investigate6026
The teacher introduces history and science of sundials. Pupils learn that sundial is the oldest known instruments for telling time. The surface of a sundial has markings for each hour of daylight. As the Sun moves across the sky, another part of the sundial shows a shadow on these markings. The position of the shadow shows what time it is.
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Mind map
100 minutes)
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Collaborate605
the teacher divides the class in some small groups. Pupils read the test about the sundials and build a mind map with Coggle
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Discuss4026
Then each group explains the mind maps made to the other groups
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Human sundial
60 minutes)
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Practice6026
the teacher gets outside the class and work in the sunshine to create a human sundial
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Learning Experience
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