Time
Clock is a project from the Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter inspired by ticket #2778]. (It has no relation to the current Clock activity in joyride yet; this is a more full-featured graphical interface for teaching children about time, not just displaying it.)
We aim to create an Activity that can be used to explore different aspects of telling time. We want this activity to display time in analog, digital, and "natural" forms. The "natural" form will be an image of a sun or moon arcing across the sky, rising and setting as the day progresses. This is more than a simple clock; the user will be able to grab any element and readjust it, which will update each of the other elements. In this manner, hopefully the children can explore and understand different methods of telling time.
We would also like to somehow implement support for each timezone; perhaps getting the timezone and performing some algorithm to reasonably guess the position of the sun in the sky at different times of day based on latitude and longitude.
- Analog
- Digital
- Tree - a "natural" way to show time with the sun and moon "orbiting" around a tree
- drag-able clock hands and sun/moon
- text input on the digital
- toggle between 12 and 24 hour digital display
- support for different time zones
