Supplementary Resources

• The Noon Day Project: The original project with teacher lessons, student activities, and information how you or your students can participate in the NEXT implementation (see project web site for dates).
  • The Story of Eratosthenes, as told be Carl Sagan from his book Cosmos.
  • Using Trigonometry: An additional method of estimating the circumference of the earth using trigonometry and a spreadsheet.
     
• Biographies
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene: An extensive hyperlinked biography.
  • Who was Eratosthenes of Cyrene?: A brief biography.
     
• Other
  • Sieve of Eratosthenes: Information and interesting java applet used to identify prime numbers.
  • The Eratosthenes Hub: An extensive list of links, directories, projects, slides, and abstracts relating to Eratosthenes.

(NOTE: this RWLO is based on the Noon Day Project)