Time Warp

Resources for
Teachers and Students

US Naval Observatory: Time Zones - Unofficial, non-authoritative information on world time zones.
Day and Night - A short page listing the best live camera and animation sites about day and night on the Earth.
Time - Six clocks of the 4 major American time zones, Hawaii, and an example of how military time works with a clock for Mountain Standard Time.
NJDXA Time Page - As they say, "More Time Information that U Ever Wanted to Know".
Time, GMT, Meridian Line - A short description of what time zones are. An excellent time zone map.
Frequently Asked Questions about Time and the Calendar - An amazing list of questions about time zones, leap years, atomic clocks....

The Great Kettles: A Tale of Timeby Dean Morrisey. Harry Abrams,1997. This is a book about how a boy visits the Great Kettles and learns all about how time is brought to many places.
The Reasons for the Seasons by Gail Gibbons. Holiday House, 1995. Pictures and descriptions of the seasons. Beware of the poorly represented astronomy facts. by . , 19. by . , 19. by . , 19.

Word Lore - Carl's lessons on exploring words we use in this curriculum, such as where did the word "Sun" come from, or what is the difference between "daylight" and "day"?

Time Keeping and Culture - Nice site with links to history of time keeping with games and surveys about time in your life. This is a museum site.
Mesoamerican Calendars - How were ancient people calculating time?
Medicine Wheels: How they Work - An explanation of some medicine wheels with diagrams about how they were pointing out the locations of objects in their culture's sky map.
Chinese Math - At the end of this document are some interesting insights into the time keeping of the ancient Tibetans, such as the animal spirits and magic shapes which represented certain aspects of time.

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