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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The <a href="http://ciese.org/curriculum/noonday/">Goal of the Noon Day Project</a> is to have students measure the circumference of the earth using a method that was first used by Eratosthenes over 2000 years ago.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Students at various sites around the world will measure shadows cast by a meter stick and compare their results.</p></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From this data students will be able to calculate the circumference of the earth. <a href="http://ciese.org/curriculum/noonday/">Click here to get to their site and register.</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Watch the <a href="http://youtu.be/0JHEqBLG650">Carl Sagan video,</a> its a treat.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks to Ihor Charischak for pointing this out.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Stephen</p></div></span>