<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nanonano@mediagala.com">nanonano@mediagala.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<small><i>>On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote:<br>
>...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons
or phases of the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?</i></small><br>
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One reason to think about phases of the moon on our normal life is
the fact that people on the north hemisphere see the moon
"upsidedown". Or the opposite: people on the southern hemisphere
see the moon "upsidedown".<br>
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We can use that knowledge on our normal life: On the calendar we can
see the icons of phases of the mooon, but those icons were designed
by northern people, with the crescent moon like a "D" and the
Waning Moon like a "C", but in the southern hemisphere is the
opposite, crescent moon is a "C" and waning moon is a "D". (the
people that designs calendar on the south repeat like parrots the
things that northern people designs, so they draw the moon in the
opposite way....)<br>
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In northern hemisphere the mooon is liar, because she is a "C" when
she is "de-crescent", and she is a "D" when she is Crescent, but
here on the south the moon tell us the truth.<br>
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For example: a child in Uruguay could take a picture of the moon and
send to a child in Canada, the same day, so they can compare that
fact. and maybe another child on the equator can send another
picture that shows the moon on the middle, like an "U".<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This suggests that in Gary Martin's Moon activity,</div><div><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon</a></div>
<div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4034">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4034</a></div><div><br></div><div>the hemisphere toggle control should instead control rotation of the view between the north and south extremes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That might help you if you wake up in a strange land and need clues to your location.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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