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Classroom Activities and Lesson Plan Ideas:

1. Geometry Lessons using segments and globes -     a. Tempo Spherical Activity #1  (Click for Activity 1: .pdf 13kb)         1. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia             a. Sphere             b. Spherical cap             c. Spherical wedge     b. Tempo Spherical Activity #2  (Click for Activity 2: .pdf 12kb)         1. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia             a. Sphere             b. Spherical wedge             c. Spherical packing     c. Tempo Spherical Activity #3  (Click for Activity 3: .pdf 40kb)     d. Tempo Spherical Activity #4  (Click for Activity 4: .pdf 39kb)     e. Geometry of the Sphere         1. http://math.rice.edu/~pcmi/sphere     f. Great Circles         1. http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m308-02b/projects/franco/index.htm     g. History of Non Euclidian Geometry         1. http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/non-euclidean geometry - history/id/1805346     h. Browse College Higher-Dimensional Geometry         1. http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/college_3d.html     i. Study of curved spaces         1. http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/sormani/explore/metricspaces.html     j. Definitions & prperties in spherical geometry         1. http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/phma9904.htm     k. Learning Geometry of the Globe         1. http://www.nku.edu/~sheffield/watapbyd.html   2. Early Maps and Navigation - Group 1:     a. 1507 Waldseemuller's Map         1. http://www.myloc.gov/Education/LessonPlans/Pages/lessonplans/world/index.aspx     b. 1513 Piri Reis map         1. http://pdfdatabase.com/index.php?q=piri+reis+map+poster         2. http://images.rgs.org/imageDetails.aspx?barcode=31213         3. http://www.raremaps.com/maptrade/feb02/msg00002.html         4. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/pirireismap.htm         5. http://www.exploreistanbul.com/category.aspx?CategoryID=31&ArticleID=65 Group 2:     a. Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-89         1. http://www.myloc.gov/Education/LessonPlans/ExhibitObjects/drake.aspx     b. Captain James Cook         1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/launch_ani_navigation.shtml    3. Circumnavigation - Group 1:     a. http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/navigation.htm     b. http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Mi-Oc/Navigation-at-Sea-History-of.html     c. http://www.columbusnavigation.com     d. http://www.celestialnavigation.net/history.html Group 2:     a. Drake's Circumnavigation         1. http://www.drakenavigatorsguild.org/circumnavigation.html         2. http://www.francisdrake.info/circumnavigation-of-the-globe.php         3. Google Books         4. http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/drake.html         5. http://www.indrakeswake.co.uk/Education/drakeslife.htm         6. http://www.drakenavigatorsguild.org/drakeslife.html   4. Currents -     a. Ocean Current Maps     b. http://www.oceanweather.com/data     c. http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons98/Raft.html     d. http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/oceancurrents.htm   5. El Nino effect -     a. EL NINO EFFECT,, SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography         1. http://meteora.ucsd.edu/~pierce/elnino/whatis.html         2. http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/impacts.html         3. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/09/el-nino-hurricanes.html         4. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/elnino/mainpage.html         5. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/home.rxml   6. Meridians and Parallels -     a. http://www.mapthematics.com/Essentials/Essentials.html     b. http://www.tpub.com/content/engineering/14070/css/14070_186.htm     c. http://www.mp2kmag.com/gallery/?id=28     d. Plotting the globe; stories of meridians, parallels, and the international date line.(Brief Article)(Book Review);         1. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-142886378.html         2. http://www.worldmapsonline.com/LESSON-PLANS/4-5-parallels-and-meridians-lesson-7.htm   . Erasable Surface Workboards & Globes: board_africa.jpg board_antarctic.jpg board_asia.jpg board_australia_nz.jpg board_chesapeake-bay.jpg board_europe.jpg board_north-west-passage.jpg board_south-america.jpg board_russia.jpg board_usa.jpg               Photo's Around the World: 1) Mauritania - West Africa   . LINKS: . A very cool new topic, that the Chinese sailed around world before Columbus was born. . . GEOSummit is located at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet (72º N, 38º W) and provides unique opportunities for investigation of atmospheric processes. . . The Seven Wonders of the World .   . Conferences: . March 18-21, 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Table ) . . October 21-24, 2010 Sacramento, California ( Table ) . . December 14-18 San Francisco, California ( Table #639 ) .   . Miscellaneous Images: old_globe_1880.jpg globe-assembly-18in.jpg 140a-c_unique.jpg   .