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What does Pizza have to do with Ancient History?
http://stevekluge.com/geoscience/projects/nysic/oldpizza.pdf
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The activity describes Eratosthenes' experiments which determined that the Earth is spherical, rather than flat. Students reproduce Eratosthenes' methods using a slice of pizza to calculate the circumference of the entire pie. Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8), High (9-12)
Resource type: Classroom activity
Subject: Geophysics, History and philosophy of science
 
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