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Tools Of Timekeeping: A Kids Guide to the History and Science of Timekeeping
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Tools of Timekeeping: A Kid's Guide to the History and Science of Telling Time List Price 16.95 Our Price 11.90 144 Pages, Soft Cover Reading level 9 and up From ancient civilization's earliest calendars to the atomic clocks of today, Tools of Timekeeping: A Kid's Guide to the History and Science of Telling Time explores the fascinating history and scientific discoveries involving human's quest to understand time. 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 attempts to track days and months have transformed over centuries into a sophisticated ability to keep time to the millionth of a second. Tools of Timekeeping includes historical anecdotes, biographical sidebars, fun facts and trivia, and fifteen hands-on activities, which all work to present a fun and interesting way to learn about time. Track time like an Egyptian Find their latitude using a sextant Make their own klepsydra Make their own sandglass Learn to tell time using only the stars Lively and informative, Tools of Timekeeping offers children and adults alike an inviting, hands-on way to learn the nature of time-one we can measure and record but never tame.