From: Freehold Intermediate School We are from Freehold Intermediate School in Freehold, NJ. We participated in the Global Sun Temperature Project in our Grade 6 science class. We tried to determine if the distance of a place from the equator had any effect on the minutes of sunlight for that area or its temperature. To find out about this we looked up and recorded the temperature each day on a weather website at about 12:15 P.M. (http://weather.unisys.com/) Our school was closed on two of the project days, so some students looked up the information at home on those days. The same website also listed the times of sunrise and sunset, so we recorded that information too. We then found the average number of minutes of sunlight for that week and the average temperature for that week. By looking at the data from the other parts of the country and the world, we compared, contrasted, and analyzed it by looking at graphs made with the data. We also looked at graphs of data from 2 previous years. We concluded that locations that were closer to the equator received more minutes of sunlight and had warmer average temperatures. We noticed that locations in the southern hemisphere that were of equal distance from the equator than those in the northern hemisphere seemed to have more minutes of sunlight. We thought that this was due to the tilt of the earth on its axis. This is because of the angle that the earth is tilted on. The earth receives less direct rays of sunlight at higher latitudes north of the equator during the fall and winter months. We also noticed that as the days went on, the number of minutes of sunlight grew shorter. Next time we do this project, we would like collect data for a longer period of time-maybe two weeks because we had fun.