After making a sundial out of cardboard at homeschool co-op, I discovered a human sun dial during a trip to Sugar Mill Gardens in Port Orange with my friend. The human sundial was in the midst of a beautiful garden. Stones were carefully laid out. These stones were labeled with numbers. Other stones were labeled with the months of the year.
To tell time, you had to stand next to the month stone and face the number stones. Your shadow would fall across the number, revealing the time. If daylight savings time was in effect, you had to add an hour.
I tried it out and it worked! I was so thrilled.
To tell time, you had to stand next to the month stone and face the number stones. Your shadow would fall across the number, revealing the time. If daylight savings time was in effect, you had to add an hour.
I tried it out and it worked! I was so thrilled.
A sundial is a device used since ancient times to tell the time of day based on the apparent movement of the sun across the sky. It has a flat plate or dial with numbers on it. There is a also a gnomon, or shadow casting apparatus, to cast the shadow across the dial numbers.
Sundials work by casting a shadow across the correct time. Though we are the ones who rotate, the sun appears to move across the sky at by 15̊every hour. As the sun “moves” across the sky, the position of the shadow changes, thus revealing the time.
Sundials are easy to make. We used a flat foam board and a cardboard tube.
Sundials work by casting a shadow across the correct time. Though we are the ones who rotate, the sun appears to move across the sky at by 15̊every hour. As the sun “moves” across the sky, the position of the shadow changes, thus revealing the time.
Sundials are easy to make. We used a flat foam board and a cardboard tube.
Using a glue gun, we attached the cardboard tube to the foam board.
Once it dried, we took our sun dial outside to position it to cast a shadow. By putting it in the exact same place each hour, we were able to add the numbers to make our very own ancient clock.
Maybe in the future, we can make our own human sundial.
Once it dried, we took our sun dial outside to position it to cast a shadow. By putting it in the exact same place each hour, we were able to add the numbers to make our very own ancient clock.
Maybe in the future, we can make our own human sundial.
If you are interested in more hands-on learning about ancient times, you will enjoy our Ancient History Cookbook, available at Amazon. Enjoy making edible mummies, Esau’s lentil stew, Persian almond stew, and Roman boiled eggs.
Be blessed every day....in every way.
Cordially,
Merey (Meredith Ludwig Curtis)
Be blessed every day....in every way.
Cordially,
Merey (Meredith Ludwig Curtis)
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