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Handout
Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Atomic Clocks

For Students 9th - 10th
The first atomic clock was designed by Louis Essen in 1955. Find out about how it works and how atomic clock technology has developed.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What if the Earth Stopped Spinning?

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Stevens of Vsauce looks at what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning. He also explores how we construct time as a function of the Earth's rotation and why atomic clocks are so precise. [9:44]
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Website
US Navy

United States Naval Observatory Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
United States Naval Observatory is a unique observatory run by the Navy. It does some of the grunt work of astronomy -- keeping accurate time, determining positions of stars (astrometry), etc. They are responsible for publishing the...
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Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Time O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip over this interactive OLogy card to find short overviews, fact-or-fiction questions, and similar bite-size bits of information about the nature of time, time travel, atomic clocks, and the general theory of relativity.