Makauri school sundial 12 december 2014

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SunDial

Gisborne’s

‘FIRST’ Analemmatic

Makauri School Year 5 & 6

...Where time begins... The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...


’Girls

Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...

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Brianna

Briar

Cayla

Charlotte

Claudia

Emily

Georgia

Hattie

Hazel

Honoka

Jennah

Kate

Leah

Leigh

Libby

Lucy

Molly

Ophelia

Sasha


Boys

Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...

Alex

Ben

Charlie

Scott

Toby

Zek

Jack

Kelly

Kent

Nathan

With help from Room 1 Teacher Mr Kirkpatrick & Principal Mrs Nicoll

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...

Education

Human Sundials

Analemmatic Sundial (Human Sundial) & construction Beginning modestly with the young ones to seed the vision for the next generation. By using a Sundial as part of our teaching syllabus we hope to give this and the next generation familiarity with a unique part of our local Gisborne heritage. Analemmatic Sundial (Human Sundial) & construction

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1. 3.

Time / Calendar Solar System / SUN

2. 4.

Maths / Geometry Light / Shadow

Contents Girls .......................................................................... 1 Boys ......................................................................... 2 Contents ................................................................ 3 Human sundials .................................................. 3 Create ................................................................ 4 - 7 Numerals completed ......................................... 8 Classroom photos ....................................... 9 -15 Site preparation ........................................ 16 - 20 Mobile Concrete team ........................... 21 - 32 Pasty’s Masonry & Ceramics ................. 33 - 40 Completion photos ................................. 41 - 50


Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Initial Design process involved chalk and the school playground

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Creative fun kept all busy and learning by experience...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Smashing ceramic tiles, towel saves flying debris

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Laying up Numeral 1... Fun smashing tiles....

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< CLICK > Logo’s for more information and Mr Kirkpatrick’s Class

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Mask protection while cement mixing...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Kathy Grimson, support staff & pupils begin analemmatic pedestal base...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Numeral 12 takes shape....

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Group cementing tiles...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Numeral making continued... more cementing...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Mr Kirkpatrick and pupil checking for loose tiles....

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...How

to create ‌

Mr Kirkpatrick helping with tiles layout...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Site

Preparation...

Boxing for the concrete base and pedestal begins...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Site

Preparation...

Analemmatic Sundial - marking - using string and stakes...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Site

Preparation...

Ready for Mobile Concrete team to arrive....

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Site

Preparation...

The Analemmatic Sundial pedestal base...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Site

Preparation...

Reading for concrete pour...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Mobile concrete arrive... < CLICK HERE

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Thanks ‌ Adam Keywood and Alan Te Are from Mobile Concrete...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Adam with the first barrow of concrete...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Darylle Lawler keeps an eye on the first pour...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Adam at work...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Alan & Adam begin trowel work...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Bothe men applying the finishing touches...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Mr Kirkpatrick, Joel and Mrs Nicoll check numeral placement...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Mr Kirkpatrick re checking placement of the numerals...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Our thanks to Frank Alderton and team from Mobile Concrete.... CLICK HERE >

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Thanks.. To Adam and Alan for their help...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Placement of the mosaics begin...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The mosaics now laid out...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...thanks... Thanks to Lee Connon and Pasty’s Masonry & Ceramics team...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Pasty and team ensure evrything is firmly in place and correct...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Pasty re checking placement...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The team check and re check all is well...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

Finishing touches...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...The

Time ‌

Mr Kirkpatrick and pupils check the time on their new Sundial...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...End

of year ‌

The Analemmatic Sundial makers and supporters...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Christmas

is coming...

The Analemmatic Sundial time check - dressed for their Nativity play...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Finishing ‌ Final day of trimming grass and tidying the site...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...thanks ‌ To Wendy Worters and Lisa Ross and all those who helped along the way...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...thanks ‌ To Corrina Scott and Debbie Traue and all those who helped along the way...

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Makauri School Year 5 & 6 ...Where

Time Begins...

The Analemmatic Sundial makers, creating footprints for our future...

CLICK ^^^ Green TAB to visit the Class Sundial website

This Makauri School E-Book has been created to share a record of their schools journey in creating what we believe may be the ‘FIRST’ Analemmatic Sundial in Gisborne city. This E-Book can be found on: www.gisbornesundials.co.nz Ray Sheldrake has been promoting the concept of Analemmatic (human) Sundials in Gisborne city to leverage on the claim ‘FIRST’ to see the sun.

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This E-Book was created by SheldrakevisualART.com to also feature on: www.gisbornespecials.co.nz © 10 December 2014


© Intro. Brief - Teaching Paper - prepared by Georgette Jenson as an initial ‘Sundial 101’ to illustrate the potential and educational value of introducing Sundials to our Gisborne District Primary Schools as a fresh, fun, topic with wide educational benefit.

Education:

Georgette Jenson: Won a National Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010. She visits cities throughout NZ to help upskill teachers and believes this Sundial concept will make for great educational value - especially for Gisborne city: ‘first to see the sun’.

SUNDIAL - SCIENCE: The BIG Question/s

eg: How has telling the time developed / improved over time * Design / make: simple to complex , small to large. * Explain how they work / move > Rotation - Sun / Solar System - Light * Experiment - Scientific Method. Make and read sundial at a specific time every day / few days / weeks

* Compare - Contrast / problem pose (what if ) Problem Solve - Sun / Clouds / Seasons / effects on telling time

* Read Sundial different times of the day: Discuss Shadow // what about night time?

* Hypothesis ( Scientific Method - to prove or disprove) eg: The speed of the Shadow depends on the length of the gnomon. May lead to more questions. eg: Is the length of shadow determined by seasons? Why or why not? Experiments to prove / disprove

SCIENCE: Technology

Where to place Sundials? What to look for. Do Sundials work on: Equator / North - South Poles - Research / Discuss * Questions: Why do gnomons not point straight up? Where do they point? Human Sundials - make / create.

SOCIAL SCIENCE & Technology: (Old Term - Social Studies)

* Sundials around the world. Why did people need to tell the time? * Timeline of notable Sundials. Oldest Sundial, biggest sundial, portable sundial etc. * Telling the time at night? * Shapes of Sundials - Cubic 1840 Ring Dial / Cadot 1680 Scape (Rome 100AD)

ENGLISH: Gisborne Advertising / Posters / Slogans

* Report writing - factual / accounts * Kids can make Short Video Clip or Power Point Presentation explaination * Describing how Sundial works

ART: * Labelling / Posterising / Designing * Modeling / Materials / T-Shirts Icons VOCAB: Gnomon = Greek One that knows or examines - A Gnomon is the part of a Sundial that casts the Shadow. Analemmatic = Pedestal of a Sundial.

© www.gisbornesundials.co.nz 2014 presentation: ‘Gisborne, where time begins!’ Gisborne, New Zealand. Sundials concept.

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History... ‘...Where Time Begins... ’ Here at Makauri School in Gisborne New Zealand, we have had a wonderful learning experience creating the FIRST Analemmatic Sundial for our city. The Sundial concept celebrates our ‘FIRST’ city status, profile and geographical blessing through this unique creative HUMAN sundial.

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In October 1884 in Washington DC, USA, their former President Chester A. Arthur invited 41 delegates from 25 nations to what was called the International Meridian Conference

Analemmatic Sundials offer a participatory, educational and fun experience for all ages.

Those gathered, collectively chose the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich England, (established by Sir George Airy in 1851) to be the Standard International Measure for TIME.

By stepping onto our Analemmatic Sundial the participant brings the sundial to life, as their shadow reveals the moment in TIME.

Thus creating a line that would pass alongside this place in the Southern Hemisphere that would become today’s City of Gisborne, New Zealand.

We believe this to be a NZ FIRST - as no other city in our nation can hold a genuine claim to being the FIRST City to see the Sun.

Creating this historical point of reference allows us to claim another FIRST experience for our city with our Sundial project.

© www.gisbornesundials.co.nz 2014 presentation: ‘Gisborne, where time begins!’ Gisborne, New Zealand. Sundials concept.


...Where Time Begins... First City to see the Sun!

New Zealand

Auckland

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International Dateline

Gisborne

New Zealand

Wellington

Christchurch

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