Sundial Quiz Book: v.4 (Sundials)

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Which word, which is Latin for 'crown', is an aura of plasma that surrounds the Sun and other stars?

In Greek mythology, whose wax wings melted when he ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun? Now you can use the sun to tell what the time is. Every hour mark the time and the position of the shadowing on the card. Don't worry if you miss an hour, you can estimate where that hour is by seeing how far there is between the shadows of the other hours. This resource contains a PDF document containing nine sheets that can be printed into A4 paper. This make a sundial KS2 activity is divided into three sheets, which include the activity sheet, a sheet containing the sundial template, and the answer sheet. There are three versions of this activity that have been scaled for three difficulty levels.Which actress played struggling screenwriter Norma Desmond in the 1950 American film Sunset Boulevard? Use this experiment to get your students thinking about time, shadows and how the Earth's movement can cause changes. This resource is aligned with the Australian curriculum, ACSSU048. Another great resource for this topic is this Make Your Own Ice Hand Activity. How is this Make a Sundial KS2 resource useful for children? Four-letter word minimum. No proper names or plurals. Words are all from Collins Concise Dictionary.

The first version of this activity is the easiest, and most of the explanation is already filled out and students can simply fill in the missing gaps using the keywords provided. The second version of this activity is a bit more difficult as there are no keywords provided and students must fill in the gaps using their own knowledge.In the centre of the semicircle, with the thin point of the triangle at the edge of the card, glue the sundial to the base. The Romans adopted the Greek sundials, with the first record of a sundial in Rome being in 293 BC. Plautus, who wrote plays, complained in one of his plays about the day being ‘chopped into pieces’ by these sundials! In 10 BC, the Ancient Romans built a very large sundial called the Solarium Augusti . It is an obelisk , which is a very tall stone pillar that has a big base and gets thinner towards the top. In 1666, which scientist observed the Sun's light using a prism, and showed that it is made up of light of many colours?