Understanding Time
Most lessons about time stress calendars and telling time for younger students...
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Most lessons about time stress calendars and telling time for younger students. Tycho explains how time itself is determined all over the world.
Space-Time Wrinkles uses photos from a supercomputer to explain black holes and gravity ala Einstein (including all the hairy math equations).
Major concepts and a history of time-keeping is located at the NIST site.
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Like other resources in this library, this site advances traditional curriculum by asking a meta-questions: Who sets the time on our globe? How was the time set in history? What our global times (rather than a student's local time)? In other words, students can go beyond the descriptive to the analytical.
