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European School Innovation Academy

European School Innovation Academy (ESIA) offers teacher training courses. For more please visit the ESIA web site.

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AMASE: Advance Materials Science for Advanced STEM Education

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COSMOS: THE ERATOSTHENES EXPERIMENT EXPLAINED BY CARL SAGAN

Carl Sagan - Cosmos - Eratosthenes

IBM:  "Eratosthenes"

Excerpt from the IBM film "Mathematics Peepshow"

MIT K12 videos: Using geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth

Using geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth.

NASA Connect Channel: A segment explaining questions about Eratosthenes, the Earth's circumference, parallel lines, angle relationships, and a transversal

NASA Connect Segment explaining questions about Erastothenes, the Earth's circumference, parallel lines, angle relationships, and a transversal.

TED-Ed lessons, Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries

Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.

Εratosthenes ON MATH FORUM NEWSLETTER

The Math Forum newsletter serves as a gateway to the Net providing information about math resources and key issues in math education.

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Measure the size of the Earth before you go on vacation

The video describes how to perform the Eratosthenes Experiment during the summer solstice (content and videos in spanish).

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The World is Round/Size of the Earth: Computer-animated segments, By BGenerous

Here are a couple of computer-animated segments I made. They were to be part of RabidApe's Big Bang project.