World History
NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude. Companion to the PBS special about the quest for a method of determining a seafaring ship's longitude. This site has information on why ocean navigation depends on knowing what time it is. In addition, it has the story behind the manufacture of John Harrison's marine timekeepers in the 18th century which allowed for the measurement of longitude.
The site has a teacher's guide, a find your longitude game, Secrets of Ancient Navigation, and information on GPS.
From the site:
Welcome to the companion Web site to "Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude," originally broadcast on October 6, 1998. Based on the bestselling book Longitude by Dava Sobel, the program tells the story of how an unknown genius, John Harrison, discovered the key to navigating on the open seas and thus solved one of the thorniest problems of the 1700s.
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World History
NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude
NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude. Companion to the PBS special about the quest for a method of determining a seafaring ship's longitude. This site has information on why ocean navigation depends on knowing what time it is. In addition, it has the story behind the manufacture of John Harrison's marine timekeepers in the 18th century which allowed for the measurement of longitude.
The site has a teacher's guide, a find your longitude game, Secrets of Ancient Navigation, and information on GPS.
From the site:
Welcome to the companion Web site to "Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude," originally broadcast on October 6, 1998. Based on the bestselling book Longitude by Dava Sobel, the program tells the story of how an unknown genius, John Harrison, discovered the key to navigating on the open seas and thus solved one of the thorniest problems of the 1700s.
- History Of Mozambique
History of Mozambique. This is a brief essay on the history of the African nation of Mozambique. As with most essays from the History of Nations site, the emphasis is on 20th century political history. The Encyclopædia Britannica notes, "Officially Republic...
- History Of American Samoa
History of American Samoa. This is a small but intersting look at the history of American Samoa. From the site: Migrants from Southeast Asia arrived in the Samoan islands more than 2,000 years ago and from there settled the rest of Polynesia further...
- Interactive National Geographic Maps
Tomorrow my students are looking at their connections to the world starting with the clothes on their backs. To that end I have been trolling the Internet for something that is interactive to show them. But in doing so I found this amazing...
- How Scientists Solved The Longitude Problem
Open Culture put these videos on their site showing how scientists in the 18th century finally solved the longitude problem. In 1714, Open Culture notes, the British government opened an office to study the problem and offered an award to the first person...
- World Geography E-textbook
When I first began teaching (21 years ago!), I taught a world geography course for several years (since exiled from VA and incorporated into world history) for which this book would have been perfect. But for world history teachers the first chapter...