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1) The calendar
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Timekeeping: Explore the History and Science of Telling Time travels through the past and into the future to explore how humans have measured the passage of time. From ancient civilization's earliest calendars and shadow clocks to GPS and the atomic clocks of today, kids will track the evolution of timekeeping devices, meet the inventors of calendars and clocks, and learn interesting facts and trivia. Hands-on projects and activities include making...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This original ethnographic video depicts how New Agers, the Mexican state, tourists, and 1920s archaeologists all contend to "clear" the site of the antique Maya city of Chichen Itza in order to produce their own idealized and unobstructed visions of "Maya" while the local Maya themselves struggle to occupy the site as vendors and artisans. The setting is the spring Equinox when a shadow said to represent the Maya serpent-god Kukulkan appears on one...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This unique take on a concept book will introduce young readers to numbers both big and small, and give them the tools to understand all of the time that passes by in mysterious and exciting ways each year. It takes the Earth 365 days to spin around the sun. But what does that actually look like? Find out in this fun numerical breakdown of a whole entire wonderful year!"--
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of clocks, calendars and other means of measuring time man has used over the ages; discussess the year 2000 as a milestone marking two thousand years of human achievement and as a threshold leading into a new millennium.
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