Latitude And Longitude Grid And Bear It Hands On Activity

Make geography fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of geography.

Make history fun and interactive to motivate your social studies students. This book includes game-formatted activities for major historical topics. While the goal of these activities is to create excitement and to spark interest in further study, they are also standards based and include grading rubrics and ideas for assessment. Encouraging teamwork, creativity, intelligent reflection, and decision making, the games of Hands-on History Activities will help you take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of history. This resource is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 176pp.

Make geography fun and interactive to motivate your students. Encourage teamwork, creativity, reflection, and decision making. Take an active approach to teaching while inspiring your students to make their own explorations of geography.

For many students, understanding the basics of latitude and longitude is a challenge that limits their ability to comprehend and synthesize geographical information. Where on Earth? is a valuable resource that addresses this issue, with seven engaging lessons. The seven skill-sequenced lessons include reproducible student reading material, diagrams, vocabulary exercises, activities, worksheets, and maps. Building skill upon skill, students read about key concepts, then use grids and maps to develop an understanding of latitude and longitude. Detailed teaching suggestions, tests, and answer keys are included. Topics include: How grid lines measure What is latitude? Mercator maps Elliptical maps ...and many more. Developed by a geography teacher, Where on Earth? is a classroom-tested approach that works.

This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mûn in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Bîrûnî, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.