SEDAC′s GPWv3 and GRUMPv1, along with MODIS and SRTM data, are used in a paper, "Modelling the Distribution of Chickens, Ducks, and Geese in China," by D.J. Prosser et al, appearing in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment.
Techniques deployed by Malin and his colleagues include the use of "a paper model of Pushkin's body".
Students are introduced to concepts of electrical energy and electrical current using a paper model.
"The Craft Computer is a paper model of a computer children can make using everyday materials like card, scissors, glue, string," explained his pitch.
My aim, to construct a paper model of the Empire State, all by myself, in just one day, is a more modest but no less daunting prospect.
Printable Activities: Chandra Coloring Book, Galaxy Clusters activity, tutorial on Tracking Chandra, Trading Cards, and a Paper Model Kit.
Purpose: Students will make a paper model illustrating the concept of sea-floor spreading and the development of symmetrical magnetic "stripes" on either side of a mid- ocean spreading center.
I've made a paper model of a man and glued him down with his feet to a globe of the world, and put a light at one side, and shown them how the man's shadow lengthens as the globe turns, until finally he's completely in the shadow.
But then the eerie blankness of the desktop, the lack of identifying names or logos on the manuals and the computer, reveals that this is in fact a picture -- a strangely beautiful picture -- of a paper model, which duplicates with fanatical fidelity something that would probably never engage our attention if it were real.
So I said to myself, 'why not make a paper model?'".
Next: Build a paper model of Rosetta and Philae.
