NATURE STUDY BY GRADES 



LESSON VIII 

 THE SUN LIARKING TIME 



Most children old enough to attend school have felt the 

 need of telling the time, and will, therefore, be interested in 

 this lesson, 



Pupils who cannot tell the time by the clock or a watch 

 should be taught it at the first convenient opportunity. In 

 many schools teachers are provided with a dial plate hav- 

 ing two movable hands to be used expressly for this work. 

 When not, teachers may make substitutes of cardboard, 

 having wire or tin hands; these will answer better than 

 drawings on the blackboard. 



Where is the sun in the morning? at noon? at night? 

 Can you tell from your shadow when it is noon? when 

 it is evening? when it is morning? Where will your 

 shadow be just halfway between morning and noon? be- 

 tween noon and night ? 



In olden times, the only clocks were sundials with marks 



to tell the hour by the 

 shadow of an upright stick. 

 Describe fully. Make a 

 sundial. 



The day is divided into 

 twelve hours and the night 

 into twelve hours. Teach 

 the pupils the numerals on 

 the face of the clock. Each 



A SIMPLE SUNDIAL 



minutes, five between each two figures. As the'hands go 

 round and round, the small hand points to the hour, and the 



