2023-11-20 09:44:30
The Blue Marble
The Blue Marble
April 22nd is Earth Day. Use this activity to demonstrate the various mappings of our 3-d Earth to a 2-d piece of paper. Students compare maps with this famous photo and check to see which characteristics are maintained and which are distorted.] In honor of Earth Day we encourage you to show your classes the beauty of the Earth and remind everyone of one of the first times that it was seen in its entirety from space, December 7, 1972 from an Apollo mission.
This activity could be a starting or finishing place for a classroom attempt at drawing our continents and oceans on an orange and then trying to create a flat representation of that 3-d construction by peeling it. Let students figure out what problems occur in that translation.
Comments (0)
Display 1 - 10 Of total 0
Chocolate Milk and Mixture
Image by FreepikChemistry experiments and al...
Fine
TJ Watt was fined for roughing the ...
Are original movies better than their sequels?
We've gathered some data on movie ratings and ...
Happy 14th B'ak'tun!
Luckily, we’ve passed 12/21/2012 and the...
Happy Birthday Statue of Liberty
Friday is the Statue of Liberty's 125th birt...
Bye bye Antibiotic Chickens
🔔 Free Trial Alert!🐔Fast food chains like McDonald...
Man paid in 500 pounds of greasy pennies!
A man from Georgia, Andreas ...
Stock Market headlines - Biggest losses since 2008
This year the Dow Jones Industrial Average m...
Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctica
The crac...
Ladder figuring
Brian can't even go to his town's ...