(5) Latitude and Longitude Part of a high school course on
astronomy, Newtonian mechanics and spaceflight by David P. Stern
This lesson plan supplements: "Latitude and Longitude," section
#5: on disk Slatlong.htm, on the web | Goals: The student will|
Terms: Latitude, longitude, Line of latitude, line of longitude
(or meridian), co-latitude, equator, zero meridian ("prime
meridian"), eastern and western hemispheres, (local) noon
meridian, local time (LT), time zones, international date line,
universal time (UT; of "Greenwich Mean Time" GMT), declination,
right ascension, "First point in Aries" (or "vernal equinox") on
the celestial sphere. By this stage the student should also know
and be able to write at least a few lower-case letters of the
Greek alphabet--λ, θ, φ, δ and α, (lambda, theta, phi, delta,
alpha), corresponding to (L,T,F,D,A) Stories and extras: Origin
of the word "meridian" and the abbreviations "a.m." and "p.m.".
The Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Introduction of time zones.
The teacher may s