<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1314">English translation follows Spanish text</font></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Excelente mensaje Paolo: siempre recuerdo que en mi infancia en Uruguay me explicaban que la luna crece cuando tiene forma de "C" y decrece cuando tiene forma de "D".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Deseo agregar un punto a tu mensaje:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Hay un porcentaje considerable de uruguayos que tenemos familiares y amigos viviendo en el extranjero. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">No sé si ya se está haciendo, pero pienso que en muchas aulas sería posible realizar experimentos como el que describes de que un niño tome una foto de la luna y la envíe por correo electrónico a otro niño en el hemisferio norte. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">El niño lejos de Uruguay no tiene por qué ser necesariamente un familiar o un amigo. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Podrían ser familiares de los muchos visitantes que recibimos en Uruguay. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Podrían ser grupos que ya han demostrado interés en corresponder con niños de otros países. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Tal vez algunos recuerdan a Randy Caton; muchos uruguayos lo conocieron en ocasión de Squeakfest 2011 en Mayo último. Randy trabaja como voluntario con los niños de una reservación indígena en EEUU que desean comunicarse con niños en lugares lejanos. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">En Alemania está Radio JoJo que pone en contacto a los niños de Berlín con los del resto del mundo.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Hay escuelas para niños uruguayos en varios lugares del mundo.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff1314">English translation:</font></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Excellent message Paolo; I always remember, from my childhood in Uruguay, being told the moon is growing in size when it has the shape of a "C", as in "crecer" or "to grow" and reducing its size when it looks like a "D" as in "decrecer".</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">I want to add one point to your message:</span></div></span><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">There is a considerable percentage of uruguayans who have family members or friends leaving overseas.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">I don´t know if they are already doing it but I believe in many schoolrooms it would be possible to perform experiments like the one you describe of one kid taking a picture of the moon and emailing it to another kid in the northern hemisphere.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">The child far from Uruguay doesn´t necessarily have to be a relative or a friend. They could be the relatives of the many visitors we receive in Uruguay. They could be groups who have already shown their interest in corresponding with children overseas.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Maybe some of you remember Randy Caton: many uruguayans met him at Squeakfest 2011 last May. Randy works as a volunteer with the children in an indian reservation in the U.S.A. who want to communicate with far away children.</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Radio JoJo in Germany puts </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">Berlin </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; ">children in touch with children all over the world.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">There are schools for uruguayan children in several locations around the world.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:58 AM, <a href="mailto:nanonano@mediagala.com">nanonano@mediagala.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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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>
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That is an exercise that children have to think, not only repeating
something like parrots , things that they hear from the teacher.<br>
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Another fact about seasons and our normal life:</u> if you are on
the same longitude, you don't have the sunset at the same time, ¿why
is that????<br>
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ANd more interesting: on some dates of the year the sunset is on the
same hour, but not all the year... ¿why?<br>
There are only two days on the year that this happens.<br>
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For example, the longitude of boston is almost the same as Chile,
and now the sunset on both places are almost at the same time,
children can control that sending them an e-mail, o chatting.<br>
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That is because it began the spring on the south and fall on the
north.<br>
If you make the same experiment on Christmas, the sunset on Boston
is 2 hours before that the sunset in Chile ¿why is that?<br>
If a child on BOston chat whit a child on Chile, the child on chile
have the sunset, but the child on boston had the sunset 2 hours ago.<br>
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the answer is the same as the answer about the season: the tilt of
the earth.<br>
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That kind of experiment was theoretical some years ago, but now it's
a normal thing with the internet and the XOs.<br>
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That fact is very clear if you see it on Google earth, with the sun
turned "on", and you look the earth thousands of Km away, like a
satellite. If you move the timeline you can see it very clearly.<br>
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Paolo Benini<br>
Montevideo<br>
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