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Exploratorium: Making a Sun Clock ActivityExploratorium: Making a Sun Clock Activity
Publisher
Exploratorium
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3rd - 5th
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Science
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Lexile Measures
950L
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Exploratorium: Making a Sun Clock

Curated by ACT

Learn how to use the sun to tell time. This simple activity reinforces the concepts of light and shadow, night and day, time, and geographical north vs. magnetic north.

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Concepts

sundials

Additional Tags

apparent movement of the sun, solar, study of the sun, sun clock, sun dial, sun observation, exploratorium

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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