Tassajara Hills Elementary
School (5th grade), Danville, CA, USA
We are reporting from Mrs. Cattalini's 5th
grade class at Tassajara Hills Elementary School. We are located in
Danville, CA.
For this project we first downloaded several letters of introduction and
then wrote our own and sent it. We kept the downloaded letters posted on
our bulletin board and plotted the locations on our classroom map. When it
was time to measure temperatures, we went out everyday and checked the
temperature on a little weather station we set up. For minutes of
sunlight, we noted the time of sunrise and sunset in the newspaper each
day and subtracted.(We then checked it with the printed minutes per day).
We spent one morning in December graphing the results. Our teacher did it
on the computer and she automatically added a trend line, then we drew
ours.
We noticed a pattern with the minutes of sunlight and the latitude.There
is more sunlight as you go south. We know that is because of the earth's
tilt. We used a globe to picture it. The temperature and latitude weren't
so closely related. We are studying weather and we know that bodies of
water, land elevation and other geographic features affect the
temperature, so latitude is just partly related to temperature.
We thought it was interesting that the daylight minutes changed by 2
minutes per day and we learned what a trend line does.
E-mail:
dcattal@srvusd.k12.ca.us
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