On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > *>On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: > >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of > the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?* > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > One reason to think about phases of the moon on our normal life is the > fact that people on the north hemisphere see the moon "upsidedown". Or the > opposite: people on the southern hemisphere see the moon "upsidedown". > > We can use that knowledge on our normal life: On the calendar we can see > the icons of phases of the mooon, but those icons were designed by northern > people, with the crescent moon like a "D" and the Waning Moon like a "C", > but in the southern hemisphere is the opposite, crescent moon is a "C" and > waning moon is a "D". (the people that designs calendar on the south repeat > like parrots the things that northern people designs, so they draw the moon > in the opposite way....) > > In northern hemisphere the mooon is liar, because she is a "C" when she is > "de-crescent", and she is a "D" when she is Crescent, but here on the south > the moon tell us the truth. > > ----------------------------- > > For example: a child in Uruguay could take a picture of the moon and send > to a child in Canada, the same day, so they can compare that fact. and > maybe another child on the equator can send another picture that shows the > moon on the middle, like an "U". >
This suggests that in Gary Martin's Moon activity, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4034 the hemisphere toggle control should instead control rotation of the view between the north and south extremes. That might help you if you wake up in a strange land and need clues to your location. {...} >
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