Synopses & Reviews
- Why do we have leap year?
- Who created the first calendar?
- What is Greenwich Mean Time?
- ...and why is it so important to know exactly what time it is, anyway?
From ancient civilization's earliest calendars and shadow clocks to the atomic clocks of today. Kids will track the evolution of timekeeping devices, meet the inventors of calendars and clocks, learn interesting facts and trivia, and work on fifteen hands-on projects and activities to understand how civilization's vague abilities to track days and months has transformed over centuries into a sophisticated ability to keep time to the millionth of a second.
Review
"A mind-opening introduction to methods of computing and comparing time calculations...written in a spirited style."
KLIATTReview
"A fascinating glimpse into humanity's efforts to tame time."
YES Mag: The Science Magazine for Adventurous MindsReview
"A wonderful resource full of worthwhile activities. What fun!"
The Why Files: Science Behind the NewsReview
"Lively text...a handy resource."
VOYA MagazineReview
"This resource would be valuable both for research and for interdisciplinary units where time concepts are included.... Recommended." Library Media Connection
Review
"Lively text...a handy resource."
VOYA MagazineReview
"An excellent book to help families explore the past and future of time and timekeeping." Richard Paselk, PhD, curator, Scientific Instrument Museum at Humboldt State University
Review
"An excellent resource and learning tool in the classroom." Children's Literature
Review
"An excellent addition to any studies, this would be a particularly pleasurable way to enhance summer learning." Eclectic Homeschool Online
Synopsis
Children will learn all about inventions: their inventors, the way they changed history, and their evolution over centuries, through the activities and anecdotes provided in this interactive series.
From ancient civilization's earliest calendars and shadow clocks to the atomic clocks of today, the history of time measurement emerges in this interactive guide. The study of the evolution of timekeeping devices and the inventors of calendars and clocks is included and loaded with interesting facts and trivia. Fifteen hands-on activities help demonstrate humans' changing relationship with time over the centuries.
About the Author
Linda Formichelli is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in several youth and science publications including
Ack!,
Delta Education,
Odyssey,
Yes, and
Zillions. She is the author of
Renegade Writer and
Becoming a Personal Trainer for Dummies. She lives in Blackstone, Massachusetts.
W. Eric Martin has written articles for more than 50 publications and has provided dictionary entries for Thomson Gale's
World of Computer Science. He lives in Blackstone, Massachusetts.