Final Report - June, 2004

We are third grade students at Hurlbutt Elementary School in Weston, Connecticut. We are located about 60 miles from New York City.

During The Sun Times – Global Sun Temperature Project, we calculated the number of daylight hours every day and made a chart to make it easy for us to see. We were able to calculate the number of daylight hours by using the sunrise and sunset times. We also took the daily temperature at 12:00 PM and averaged the temperature for the week.

As we looked at the chart of all the participants in the project, we found the places that had the most sunlight hours and the least sunlight hours. We used the map and plotted the place with the HIGHEST number of daylight hours and the place with the LEAST number of daylight hours. Likewise, we also plotted the place with the HIGHEST average temperature and the place with the LOWEST average temperature.

We discussed the connections between the number of daylight hours and the temperatures at the various points we plotted on our map. As we looked at the places with the highest number of daylight hours, we discussed the reasons why. Our teacher placed herself as the “SUN” and with the globe we discussed which places on earth were directly facing the sun with the tilt of the earth and, therefore, would receive more daylight hours and higher temperatures.

E-mail: meghancasey@westonk12-ct.org