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Email Exchange - Spring 2002

3.4.02	Project Kickoff message - Ihor
3.5.02	Week 1 activities

3.11.02	Shadows and the Stories they Tell
3.18.02	Let the Measurements Begin
4.3.02 4.9.02	Is there a relationship between the sun angle and latitude? Response by Patrick Bayer with Ihor's reply

Suggested Lessons for teaching the Noon Day Project

General procedure for doing the measurements

Doing the Measurement ala Eratosthenes - Guy Brandenberg
Includes some nice variations on the theme.

Confusion about minutes and decimals - helpful notes on getting latitude and longitude right.

The Noon Day Project is a joint effort by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) which is located at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey and the McKinney Schools in McKinney, Texas.