As I promised, I have uploaded in
http://www.relojesdesol.org/Museo/museo.html
a brief summary of the activities I made for the workshop on "Basic
astronomy for
children" I taught at the Science Museum of Valladolid. I implemented
there many
of the suggestions you sent (thanks again!) and I believe the children
enjoyed all
the activities, but some of them weren't properly understood, for
instance the one
I made to determine the approximate hour counting how many steps long is
your shadow... One has to consult a double entry table and it is too
cumbersome
for the smaller children. On the other hand, the 'dance of the planets'
proposed
by Sara was a complete success.
At the moment the page is written in Spanish only and the pictures are
uncomplete
(I didn't alwas have somebody at hand to take the picture) and do not
have very
good quality (I do not want to burden people's computers with huge
images of 'me
and my friends on our summer holidays'), so I apologize for both things.
Oh, and, of course, as somebody warned me, the *only* summer storm we've
had in this summer appeared just on the evening we were drawing the
analemmatic
on the ground, so you not only have to clean the windows or wash the car
in order
to get rain, you can draw an analemmatic (thank you Mr. Murphy!) as well.
Best regards
Anselmo Perez Serrada
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