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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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STEMMOS: Satellite Observation of Earth, Moon, and Mars in Schools
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ASTROJOURNEYS: A hands-on interdisciplinary journey based on the Big Ideas in Astronomy
STEMMOS: Satellite Observation of Earth, Moon, and Mars in Schools
Cosmos: The Eratosthenes Experiment explained by Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan – Cosmos – EratosthenesIBM: “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.
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).
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.