Signs and Seasons Field Journal and Test Manual

Chapters

• 1-1 Create a Backyard Compass
• 1-2 Sunrise, Sunset, and Noon
• 1-3 Noon shadows
• 1-4 Is your neighborhood "astronomically aligned"?
• 1-5 Exposures
• 1-6 Finding Direction Around Your Hometown
• 1-7 Twilight Activity
• 1-8 Earth's Rotation
• 1-9 Sun's Daily Motion
• 1-10 Historical Timeline
• 1-11 Seeing the Horizon
• 1-13 Globe Activities
• 1-12 Make a Sun Volvelle
• 2-1 Northern Constellations
• 2-2 Learn to find the constellation Orion
• 2-3 Rotation around Polaris
• 2-4 Cardinal Line Activity
• 2-5 Make a Northern Stars Volvelle
• 2-6 Meridian Activities
• 2-7 Globe Activity
• 2-8 Circumpolar Circle Activity
• 2-9 Direction Activity
• 2-10 Celestial Globe Activity
• 2-11 Celestial Equator Activities
• 2-12 Make an Orion Volvelle
• 3-1 Basic Definitions
• 3-2 Moon Phases - First Month
• 3-3 Moon Phases - Second Month
• 3-4 Moon Phases - Third Month
• 3-5 Globe Activity
• 3-6 Volvelle Activity
• 4-1 Visibility of the Night Sky
• 4-2 Sketching Activities
• 4-3 Observing the Constellations
• 4-4 Research Activity
• 4-5 Celestial Globe Activity
• 4-6 Volvelle Activity
• 5-1 Research Activities
• 5-2 Flat Map Activity
• 5-3 Solar System Map
• 5-4 Observing Activities
• 5-5 Finding Your Local High Noon
• 5-6 Noon Shadow Activity
• 5-7 Lag of the Seasons Activity
• 5-8 Globe Activities
• 5-9 Celestial Globe Activity
• 5-10 Orion-Constellation Volvelle Activity
• 6-1 Sketching, Flat Map and Celestial Globe Activities
• 6-2 Find Your Limiting Magnitude
• 6-3 Observing the Zodiac
• 6-4 Observe the First Magnitude Stars
• 6-5 Observe the Northern Sky
• 6-6 Observe Orion
• 6-7 Visual Acuity Activity
• 6-8 Globe Activity
• 6-9 Volvelle Activities
• 7-1 Solar System Map Activity
• 7-2 Flat Map Activity
• 7-3 Observe Venus
• 7-4 Observe the Superior Planets
• 7-5 Observe the Conjunctions
• 7-6 Observing the Moon Along the Zodiac
• 7-7 Observing Moon Shadows
• 7-8 Half Moon at Meridian (for advanced observers)
• 7-9 Orion-Constellation Volvelle Activity