Ridgeview Middle School

Celestial Patterns and Time

Astronomical Instruments

Navigation Instruments

• Navigation and Related Instruments in 16th Century England

Crosstaff

• Build a Crosstaff
• Make a Cross Staff
• The Cross-Staff
• Crosstaff
• Introduction of Navigational Instruments
• Navigation
• How to Use a Cross Staff

Nocturnal

• Navigation: The Nocturnal (How to build a nocturnal)

Sextant

• How a Sextant Works
• Sextant
• Sextant - Encyclopedia.com

Theodolite

• Theodolite
• Theodolite - Smithsonian

Chichen Itza

• Chichen Itza
• Tour of Chichen Itza

Constellations

• The Constellations and the Stars
• Constellations
• Stars

Fajada Butte

• Fajada Butte
• Archaeoastronomy
• Observatories - Fajada Butte

Foucault Pendulum

• The Foucault Pendulum - University of Louisville
• About Foucault Pendulums
• Foucault Pendulum
• Smithsonian Instutition - Foucault Pendulum
• The Foucault Pendulum

Iroquois

• Iroquois Indians
• The Iroquois of the Northeast

Lunar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipses
• Lunar Eclipse Animation

Moon Craters

• About Moon Craters
• Moon Craters
• Impact Craters on the Moon

Moon Myths

• Moon Myths

Moon Phases

• Phases of the Moon
• Moon Phases
• Starchild
• The Nine Planets - The Moon
• The Moon
• Windows to the Universe
• Sunrise Sunset Calendars

San

• The Khoikhoi and the San
• Pre-colonial Cultures in South Africa

Solar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipses
• Solar Eclipse Animation
• Solar Eclipse - Exploratorium
• Why Eclipses Happen

Stonehenge

• Information on Stonehenge
• Mystic Places - Stonehenge

Sundial

• Sundial
• Sunshine in your Pocket
• Make a Sundial and Go Back in Time
• Let's Make a Sundial
• How Sundials Work

Tides

• Our Restless Tides
• How Can the Moom Affect Tides
• Ocean Tides
• Learn About Ocean Tides, Tidepools, & Tide Prediction
• Why Tides?
• The Tides
• What Causes the Tides to Change in the Ocean?

  Time

• Measuring Time