Desert Mountain School (4th
Grade), Desert Hills, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Hi everyone!
We are a class of 4th graders from Desert Mountain School in Desert
Hills(Phoenix), AZ.
We started off the project in the computer lab where we read through some
of the schools' letters of introduction. We were amazed at all of the
variety of schools, what countries they were in, and how they described
their part of the world. Next, we learned a little bit about latitude &
longitude. It was confusing at first but we managed to get through the
lessons okay. After we felt a little more comfortable with reading
latitude/longitude it was time to check the temperature & sunlight times.
We used a regular thermometer to check the temp & we used the
newspaper(Arizona Republic) to get the sunrise/sunset times. We had to
calculate the number of minutes using those 2 times. At the end of the
week we had fun learning how to do averages.
Finally, our teacher made a packet of all the schools' verfied data. We
chose several schools & plotted them on the graphs. We noticed that
latitude does affect your sunlight & temperature. We learned already in
Social Studies that the further away from the equator you are, the cooler
you become. The graph confirmed that for us. We also noticed a strong
relationship between latitude & the # of minutes of sunlight. The Temp vs.
Latitude graph was a stronger relationship though.
We had so much fun doing this project & we hope you did too!
Take care!!
Miss Pavnick's 4th grade class
DMS
E-mail:
tpavnick@dm.dvusd.org
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