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This video is an animation of the 'longitude problem' produced by KEHS girls |
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KEHS has been successful in securing funding from the British Council for a two-year partnership with five other European schools to perform physics / astronomical observations and historical research. Workshops/ conferences will take place at the partner schools attended by pupils and accompanying staff members. The partner schools are:
- Lycee General et Technologique Charlie Chaplin Lyon FRANCE
(11 to 18 state school 1700 pupils)
- Coleguil Technic Mihai Viteazul Oradea ROMANIA
(14 to 18 technical college 2000 pupils)
- Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer Amsterdam NETHERLANDS
(12 to 18 state school 1600 pupils)
- Lycee Francohellenique d Agia Paraskevi Eugene Delacroix (Athens) GREECE
(state/ private school 1600 pupils)
- Scuola Secondaria 1O grado G.G. Belli Roma ITALY
(11 to 14 state school 800 pupils)
This half-term fifteen U4 to L6 girls have been engaged in the first activity of measuring the size of the Earth! Eratosthenes 276 - 194 b.c. discovered that measuring the height of the Sun in the sky at two different places on Earth and knowing the distance between the two places allows the circumference and therefore the radius of the Earth to be determined.
At the autumn equinox shadow measurements were duly made and the radius of the Earth was found to be (6280± 480) km