This booklet continues the experiments and activities introduced in Where are you? Material for observing and experimenting, and is aimed at children aged ten and over. The experiments described here, together with the instruments described in the first booklet can be used to carry out experimental activities and observation at a basic education level. You should read the first booklet and carry out the activities and experiments described there before you read this one.
Editorial Staff
Text and Instruments: Rui Dilão
Revision and Suggestions: Maurice Bazin, Elisa Figueira, Helena Fonseca, Carlos
Rodrigues and the team of the Living Science Unit.
Comments on the text: Ana Teodoro, Dulce Marcelino, Suzana Andrade and
Maria João Marujão.
Graphic Design: FPGB design
Internet Ediction: Simbiose
Pilot testing in schools: E. S. Luísa de Gusmão (Lisboa), E. S. Rainha
D. Amélia (Lisboa), E. S. José Régio (Vila do Conde) and EB2,3 D. Manuel I
(Alcochete) and Colégio de Quiaios. Our thanks to the teachers and students who took part in these tests.
Acknowledgements: The view of the Earth and the Sun on Pages 2 and 5 courtesy of the NASA Photo Bank. The astrolabe diagram courtesy of the Naval Museum. Some of the Earth pictures are from John Walker's web page. The globe was designed from data 88-MGG-02, Digital Relief of the Surface of the Earth, NOAA, National Geographic Data Center, Boulder, California, 1988. Our thanks to all of these.
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