Friday 18 May 2018

Who Set The First Clock? with Room 14

In Room 14 in science, we're answering the question: “Who set the first clock?" We made shadow clocks (sundials), learned about telling the time by the Sun and found out how (and why) people first divided the day into hours.

When your child brings the sundial home, maybe help set it up in the sun with the north-pointing arrow pointing north. When you watch the shadow move over the course of the day, which way will the shadow move around the dial? Clockwise or anticlockwise? Do people in the Southern hemisphere and the Northern hemisphere observe different things?







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