These extensions are brought to you by other teachers who have used this unit. They have not been evaluated by The Einstein Project.
Look at Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Build a timer to run 60 sec., 5 min, and 1 hour
Discovery Channel School video: “Discover Magazine: “Lost in Time”, (26 minutes)
Videos: “The Sun Dagger”
- “ Mass & Density” – teaches mass, density, and volume
- “Sun, Earth, & Moon” – National Geographic
- “Time: How We Measure It” – Barr Films VC529TIM
- “Moon” – Bill Nye
Enlarged the moon phase cards and displayed these around the room each day based on student observations.
Literature: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Father Time and the Day Boxes by George Ella Lyon
Website: http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/author.html - good resource for time
http://www.fi.edu/time/keepers/index.html - good resource for clocks
