Thank you to Urban Systems for their sponsorship of the Uranus sign!
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Sponsor! – Northern Environmental Action Team
I’d like to thank the Northern Environmental Action Team for sponsoring the Earth sign!
Gathering Fun Facts
I will be speaking with classrooms and asking for their help to create the fun facts for each body listed in the Solar System Bodies pages. For this projects students will: Research from multiple sources including texts, library resources, and internet Verify – each fact needs to be independently verified from a different source Write […]
April 2012 update
Met with Don and Les with the city to go over the sample sign and discuss next steps. The sample was well received! We identified a few things for the production signs as follows: Aluminum signs with UV coating, and and anti-vandalism coating if available reduce size of solar body symbol increase font size of […]
Next Steps
Get city staff feedback on sample sign Get a class or group to help determine what will go on the signs for the other solar bodies Seek sponsorships Measure the path, determine the locations Build the signs Install the signs Build some more curriculum Get teachers and classes involved in building the webpages for each […]
Sample Sign and some notes
The sample sign is done and very nicely I might add! A few thoughts for our future signs should we change the size of the symbol for the body? need to add something which references the type (ie. Type: Star) The dimensions and distances could be bigger, plenty of white space can be occupied […]
Sample sign being created
A sample sign has been created, and a local sign shop is working on it. It’s based of the sample at http://www.prn.bc.ca/projects/solar/?page_id=41 . I must say I am impressed with their sample! Quite a bit nicer touches than my sample sign. If your company or group would like to sponsor a sign please have a look […]
Welcome
This site will eventually hold pages for bodies in our Solar System. The information on these pages will be compiled by students in School District 60: Peace River North. Each body will have a sign along the City of Fort St John bypass walking trail that links to the information created by the students. The […]