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Sundials:  Keeping Time Like Native Americans Lesson PlanSundials:  Keeping Time Like Native Americans Lesson Plan
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Sundials: Keeping Time Like Native Americans

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Students explore the use of sundials. They observe the shadows cast by the sun and record the times at various points throughout the day. They create sundials and record the location of the shadows and the time of day. They view a video describing the technologies that the Fort Ancient people used including the solar calendar system and sundials.

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sundials, the sun, native americans

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native americans, solar calendar system, sundials, science
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3rd - 7th
Subjects
Science
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Video
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