The sun broke out this afternoon, despite a rainy forecast for the week, so I decided to grab the opportunity to make a sundial with the kids.We found a great, Exploratorium printout, that walked us right through the process. All you need besides the printout, is a pencil, a compass (lucky thing we made one this morning!), and some sun.
The children took turns looking at the clock, and trying to figure out the time, and bringing up a lot of good questions:
- Why are there two sets of numbers on the clock printout? One set is for standard time, and the other is for daylight savings time.
- Why don't the numbers go all the way around the clock? Since there's no sun out at night, there are only numbers for the daylight hours.
- What happens if the sun goes behind the clouds? That probably means it's nap time.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
5 comments:
Funny, we started making a sundial yesterday - but then it came over cloudy and looked like rain so we abandoned it - to be continued later this week I hope!
I like the answer to the last question :) Goodness - it is DST already???
I had to explain to Jeff why I was laughing after reading your post, that last answer made me laugh.
I don't want it to be DST yet, I'm not ready to lose my hour of sleep.
We have a huge sundial in our town... so ... I was lazy and just took my kids to the sundial with daddy... on a weekend... and let him answer all the questions! ;) Seriously... cute post! clever idea to make your own! love it!
Just Jenn ~
I might even be inspired to take them back to the big sundial this spring!
Leah, seriously, you are a walking encyclopedia!
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