Final Report - June, 2004

FINAL REPORT

Our school is named “A. Manzoni”. It’s junior high school and it’s in Mediglia, near Milan, in the north of Italy (latitude 45.25 north, 9.20 east).

We attend 7th grade and our class worked on this project with the English, Science and Italian teachers.

We started the project on Monday 10th of May. We checked the sunrise and the sunset in the newspaper and on the Internet. We put the thermometer in the garden of our school, in the shade of a big tree. At 1pm we checked the temperature and wrote it down. We did it every day of the week and on Friday 14th we calculated the average temperature and the average sunlight per day in minutes.

Reading the data we realized that at this time of the year in the northern hemisphere the minutes of sunlight increase the norther we go, while in the southern hemisphere they decrease the souther we go. The higher value is 947 minutes of sunlight in Canada (53 LN).
As far as temperature is concerned we noticed that in the northern hemisphere the temperatures are warmer because we are heading into summer. Temperatures are usually hotter near the equator. One exception is Popayan in Colombia which, in spite of being near the equator (2.2 LN), is having cool temperature. It must depend on its altitude.

Thanks for this interesting project.

Seventh Graders from Italy
 

E-mail: mediabustighera@icmediglia.it