Ruffing Montessori School
(7th grade), Rocky River, OH, USA
Global Sun Temperature Report
We are reporting from Ruffing Montessori School's 7th grade class in Rocky
River, OH, USA(41.30N, 81.40W).
During the project, between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM on November 3-7, we
recorded the temperature in the shade at that time. We also recorded the
sunrise and sunset times for that week. We did this by contracting the
sunrise and sunset times of Rocky River from the US Naval Observatory
Website and determining the total minutes of sunlight from this data.
With this data from November 3-7, we were able to observe that the average
minutes of sunlight was greater below the equator than above the equator.
The farther south you go, the more sunlight there was. This is because the
Earth's tilt is favoring the southern hemisphere. The pattern for the
temperatures was not quite as distinct as the sunlight was. From the data,
we found out that usually the closer you are to the equator, the higher
the temperature is. We also learned that the temperature and the sunlight
have little to do with the longitude.
Sincerely,
Ruffing Montessori School's 7th grade
E-mail:
jmcnamara@ruffingmontessori.org
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