Story of Clocks and Calendars, The: Marking a Millennium |
Publication Information
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Author: Maestro, Betsy |
Illustrator: Maestro, Giulio |
Title: Story of Clocks and Calendars, The: Marking a Millennium |
Date: 1999 |
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 0-688-14548-5 |
ISBN, hardback: |
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
reference, nonfiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
science
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Summary: |
To celebrate the new millennium issued in by the year 2000, this well-illustrated book tells the history of timekeeping with the emphasis on calendars and clocks. The endmatter includes additional information in a glossary of different measures of time and days of the week in different languages. The text varies in the organization of the layout and the specificity of the content. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Readers could web ways of measuring and/or accounting for time, plot calendars on a globe or maps, explore relative lengths of time with Timeline software. The book provides vocabulary study in astronomy, physics, and religion. Students can develop a matrix with information about the different calendars so that they can compare them in discussion or writing. It would be fun to take an event or year and figure out what year it would be on a different calendar. This tradebook would be a good lead-in to myths and other porquoi stores about units of time--seasons, days, etc. Some web sites will provide additional information and help in translating from one calendar to another: www.calendarhome/com/converter; www.projectpluto.com/calendar; www.geocities.com/calendopedia; and hermetic.nofax.com/cal_stud/lunarcal/types.htm. Leonard Evertt Fisher wrote and illustrated a book on calendars years ago that would be a good companion book as would Peter Sis's book on Galileo called _The Starry Night_. |
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