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Global Sun Temperature Project FALL 2001 - FINAL REPORTS |
| Southside
School in Columbus, Indiana
These are the results for Southside School in Columbus, Indiana. We are located at (39.2,-85.9) Our team looked at our results. We graphed our number of daylight minutes as a line graph and also as a bar graph. We did the same with our daily temperature. Then we worked with a graph covered with lines of longitude and latitude of the world. We made this hypothesis, "The farther to the south a location was, the more sunlight minutes it would have. The farther to the north the less sunlight minutes." The location with the most daylight minutes was closer to the equator. The location with the least daylight minutes was farther away from the equator. We compared a location in Australia to one in the Netherlands. Since Australia is just heading into summer they would probably have more and more daylight. The students in Canberra, Australia have about 4 more hours of daylight compared to the students in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. We plotted points for the schools in the Philippines, China, Japan, Canada, and several points in our country and each time the hypothesis worked. Mrs. Pat says we have a problem with our hypothesis but we don't know what is wrong yet. We did not have a formal hypothesis about the temperature, but we guessed that the places close to the equator would be warmer if they were not high up in mountains. We are going to continue to collect data during the first week of each month to see if the pattern continues. We enjoyed working on this problem, but it took us a long time to under stand about longitude and latitude. We would like to thank our parent helpers for working with us on this project. E-mail: pattersonk@bcsc.k12.in.us |
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