Sundial Quiz Book: v.4 (Sundials)

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Make as many words as you can which all contain the central letter - at least one word will use them all.

The first sheet of this sundial experiment contains a list of things that you will need to make the sundial, a list of instructions on how to create the sundial, and a short activity for students in which they must explain what sundials are and why they can be used to tell the time using a set of keywords that are provided to help them. Four-letter word minimum. No proper names or plurals. Words are all from Collins Concise Dictionary.How to motivate students to think about the Earth's movement using this Sundial Science Experiment? I’m sure a lot of people would agree that we live in strange times. But do they have to be so strange that Area 51 is making headlines? And what’s this about fish the look like aliens. September’s Words in the News explain all. To teach kids more about the movements of the Sun, have a look at our colourful KS2 Day and Night PowerPoint . For a deeper understanding of how shadows work, you can enjoy our fantastic How Do Shadows Change? PowerPoint with real life examples. Which song by Noel Gay and Ralph Butler originally recorded in 1932 is known for its appearance in the 1985 version of the musical Me and My Girl?

Which actress played struggling screenwriter Norma Desmond in the 1950 American film Sunset Boulevard? The first version of this activity is the easiest, and most of the explanation is already filled out and students can simply fill in the missing gaps using the keywords provided. The second version of this activity is a bit more difficult as there are no keywords provided and students must fill in the gaps using their own knowledge. Another great resource for this topic is this Make Your Own Ice Hand Activity. How is this Make a Sundial KS2 resource useful for children?During medieval times, sundials were important in the Islamic world for time-keeping for prayers. Algebra and trigonometry helped people to improve the accuracy of the sundials. At the same time, in Europe, timekeeping fell by the wayside. In the centre of the semicircle, with the thin point of the triangle at the edge of the card, glue the sundial to the base. To understand how a sundial works, we have to understand how the Sun casts shadows. When the Earth rotates on its axis, the Sun moves across the sky, causing objects to cast shadows. So, how does a sundial work? As the Sun changes relative positions in the sky over the day, the position of the shadow cast by the gnomon changes to align with the different times around the outside of the circular plate. This way you can tell the time by looking at where the shadow is cast, using the markings around the edge of the sundial base. The Romans adopted the Greek sundials, with the first record of a sundial in Rome being in 293 BC. Plautus, who wrote plays, complained in one of his plays about the day being ‘chopped into pieces’ by these sundials! In 10 BC, the Ancient Romans built a very large sundial called the Solarium Augusti . It is an obelisk , which is a very tall stone pillar that has a big base and gets thinner towards the top. Now you can use the sun to tell what the time is. Every hour mark the time and the position of the shadowing on the card. Don't worry if you miss an hour, you can estimate where that hour is by seeing how far there is between the shadows of the other hours.