Latitudes and Attitudes Resources for Teachers and Students

Internet Sites | Children's Books | Folklore & Mythology

Internet Sites

Science Behind It

• SchoolNet's Collection of Size of the Earth Data - Some values calculated by students of the size of the Earth.
• Noon Project - Here's information about how schools can join in calculations of the size of the Earth.
• About Erastothenes - A cute and short story about how Erastothenes calculated the size of the Earth.
• Basic Astronomy Demonstrations - Ways to demonstrate certain aspects of astronomy such as the roundness of the Earth, day and night, the moon and eclipses.
• Latitude and Longitude - A very beautiful page describing and diagraming the concepts of latitude and longitude. This would be a good place to show the bird's eye view of the latitude world to older students, especially 2nd-4th graders.
• Sunrise/Sunset Calculation - The Naval Observatory's sunsrise and sunset time generator. It is a very quick and easy calculation done by the Observatory computers. You must, however, know your latitude and longitude!
• Sunrise/Sunset Generator - A tremendous site designed for movie producers so they can schedule when to shoot scenes in various countries and cities around the world. Lets you choose a city and it tells you the weekly average amount of sunlight time, plus sunrise and sunset times. Great for geography tie-ins. (NB: This site no longer exists (Oct 26, 2002). Try http://www.cmpsolv.com/los/sunset.html instead.)

Maps and Live Cameras

• Day and Night on the World Right Now - A short list of the best sites on the web which provide live camera shots of places around the world. You can see who is having day or night right now.
• The World Right Now - Live Internet-linked cameras around the world.
• Live camera map - A great map of where the live cameras are in the world. Just click on the map.
• Map Projections - A large collection of projections of the world.

NASA

• Mission to Planet Earth - A NASA project to explore and archive images of the Earth using different robotic missions.

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Children's Books

• Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett. Alfred A. Knoph, Inc., 1995. This is a great book which shows you about the differences between day and night around the globe for a certain time of day here.
• Welcome Back Sun by Michael Emberly. Little, 1993. Following legend, a Norwegian family hikes up a mountain to welcome the sun's return after the dark winter months. by . , 19. by . , 19.
• Mirandy and Brother Wind - To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk,Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner. This site includes fun activities about wind.

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Folklore Mythology

Carl's Lessons

• Word Lore - Carl's lessons on exploring words we use in this curriculum, such as where did the word "Sun" come from, or what is the difference between "daylight" and "day"?

Ancient Navigation

• Historical Maps Online - A great collection of maps from all over the world drawn throughout history. Here they be dragons.
• Polynesian Wayfinding - The Traditional techniques of sailing used by early Polynesians. This is a Gopher site, which means there are text documents you can look at and print out.
• Ancient Geography - A large site full of information about how people long ago viewed the world.
• Ancient Navigation and Shipbuilding in Greek and Roman Times - This page is not yet active, but looks to be a good resource for this information. Stay tuned?

Using Fractions

• Chinese Math - A set of amusing math puzzles related to fractions, relations, and multiplications of relative values. May be rather tricky, but could also be fun for more advanced students.

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