All classes participating in this project have been asked to submit a final report to the project Discussion Area. In this report, students share what they have learned from doing the project. Read on to see the results of the students' hard work!
 

Final Report

   Posted by Broadgreen Intermediate School, Nelson, New Zealand on Sunday, 5 December 1999, at 3:41 a.m.
This is our final report from Broadgreen Intermediate School in Nelson, New Zealand. We are Year 7 and 8 students.
This is a report from four different students:
In the project I have learnt that the equator in the middle of the world is the hottest and when you get further away it gets
colder. New Zealand is 40 degrees away from the equator and Nelson, which is in the middle of New Zealand, is 41 degrees.
This is the same as northwest America. Placerville had an average temperature of 18 celsuis. America is in late fall or autumn
and New Zealand is in late Spring. The reason the equator is so hot is the sun shines on the equator most of the time and the
more of an angle the sun is the less hot it is.

* * * I liked doing this project and chatting with other schools in U.S.A. I learnt a lot about temperatures, like Phoenix's
average temperature was 27.8. I also learnt that the southern hemisphere has little countries whereas the northern hemisphere
they are bigger. It is late spring in New Zealand now and late Autumn in U.S.A. We are in the southern hemisphere and U.S.A.
is in the northern hemisphere.

* * * I found that the further away you move from the equator the colder it gets. The invisible lines that run across the world are
called latitude lines and there are two of each numbered latitude, one for the northern hemisphere and one for the south.
Longitude lines are the same but they run vertically.

* * * I have learnt that at the equator it is very hot and as you move outwards on either side it gets very cold. I also learnt that
the latitude lines run is horizontal and the longitude run vertically. I also figured out that if you build a house of mirrors (the
mirrors on the inside) at daytime in the desert then the area inside the house would not cool down because the heat cannot
reflect back into space.
 

      Final Report: Rutgers University, Education and computers on Thursday, 9 December 1999, at 10:12 a.m.

This project allowed us to become aware of the effects that the nearness to the equator and the temperature have in relation to
each other. Based on our observations, we have concluded that as the latitude beomes farther away from the equator, the
amount of daylight decreases. On the contrary we did not find a direct relationship between the latitude and the average
temperature. It fluctuating back and forth from increasing to decreasing. It allowed us to become aware of the temperature that
children of other states and countries have been dealing with. I know that I am not very good with the cold weather here in
New Jersey but I can see that other states and countries have even colder temperatures. The project allowed us to become
interactive with surrounding schools and allowed them to communicate with other students that are interested in the same
topics. We enjoyed this experiment a lot and found it beneficial. I just want to say thank you to all the schools that made this
experiment work.

Final Report From Graniteville Christian Academy,  Posted by Andy Boatwright

Hello everyone. I'm doing research on Meteorology.I learned that my state has more sunlight than some other states.I learned
that our sun rises early and it sometimes sets early and sometimes late. We had the third highest amount of sunlight. I learned
that when you are farther East, you have more sunlight than the West. Next time I would write my report while I'm doing the
project so it will be more consistent.
 

"Final Report from Altoona Area High School"
 Posted by Jan Orr & Mary Marin on Friday, 10 December 1999, at 12:30 p.m.
Hello from class A-301 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. We graphed all the data we pulled off the computer and finished up working
on the Global Temoerature Project. It was interesting to see the difference in the temperatures and daylight minutes from New
Zealand to the United Kingdom. We have been able to incorporate this project into our other class studies. We have worked
with graphs in the math class and we have been studying climate and weather in Social Studies and Science. Our introduction
letter and final report have been part of our English writing assignments. We have been doing a benchmark to go along with this
project. We took a Farmer's Almanac and compared the regional forecast for our area for the month of November and the
actual daily weather. We then compared the two to see how close the Almanac came to the actual weather. After we did this
we then drew bar and pie graphs depicting our data. We have learned the facts about how if you are nearer to the Equator the
weather is warmer and the daylight last longer but it's different when the facts are seeable and proved in black and white.

Final Report from Freehold Intermediate School
Final report from Freehold Intermediate School: We predicted that latitude relates to average temperature, and we were not
surprised to learn that the the closer to the equator you are the higher the average temperature. We realized that we have less
sunlight than some other places. We learned that there is a relationship between minutes of sunlight and your location on the
earth. We were surprised to learn that there were more minutes of sunlight each day as you get closer to the equator.

Final report from Booneville Middle School
We go to Booneville Middle in Booneville,Mississippi in the United States. During this project we learned many new things.
We took the temperature everyday for a week. We loved hearing from all the schools around the world. It was every
interesting hearing of all your temperature. We located everyone's school on a large map in our hall to compare the
temperatures. We were surprised to find that places closer to the equator had even cooler temperatures than we do. But we
also know this was an unusual year. We hope we can continue to communicate with other schools. This has been a great
project.

     Final Report from Peninsula Catholic High School
We found that the number of minutes of daylight decrease as you travel north from the equator. The most daylight was found
south of the equator. This is because the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun. We found that the average temperature
decreases as you go farther north from the equator. The northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun at this time of year and
doesn't get as much direct sunlight. The farthur north you go, the less direct sunlight you get. This makes the temperature cooler.

Final Report by Mrs. Carmola's Class

After reading the data from all schools around the world our class made the following conclusions:

1. The closer you are to the Equator the temperature is warmer.

2. The farther you are from the Equatort he colder the temperture will be.

3. The more sunligh,t the higher the temperture.

4. The less sunlight, the lower the temperture.

These results prove true to only some schools but not all schools. This might have happened due to Global Warming around the
world.
 

 Warren Middle School Final Report

Our 6th grade classes have drawn the following conclusions:

* The closer you are to the equator, the warmer the temperature.

* The closer you are to the equator, the more daylight minutes you have.

* We also that some of the same latitudes had different temperatures. We suggested that this could be caused by different
elevations at the same latitudes or perhaps a cold front in one of the locations.

* We also felt that there was not enough data from different latitudes to have a complete graph, also we felt that the data should
have been collected over a longer period of time to ensure more valid results.

We enjoyed doing the investigation and look forward to doing more projects in the future!
 

 Lowell School  Final Report

The students at Lowell School worked in groups and came to these conclusions:

***The higher the latitude the lower the temperature is, so the higher the temperature the lower the latitude is.

***As the latitudes move away from the equator it gets colder.

***If they're the same distance away from the equator it's the same temperature.

***We noticed that as you go south of the equator there is more sunlight, and as you go north of the equator there is less
sunlight. We say that's just because of the seasons.

***The furter North, the less minutes of sunlight.the further South the more minutes of sunlight. the further states are from the
equator the less minutes of sunlight.

***As the latitude gets away from the equator, it gets colder. Next to the equator is hotter.

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