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Step 4: Record the Data & Find
the Averages
Materials
- Thermometer
- Digital thermometers are available from
PASCO,
which is proud to partner with CIESE to supply probeware for
this project
- Notebooks and Pencils
- Daily Newspaper to locate sunrise / sunset times (Optional)
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Printable Student Worksheet (Optional)
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Instructions
- Measure the temperature outside your school each day for 5 days
straight (see Project Instructions for dates).
In order to standardize the data collected from around the
world, you must:
- Measure the temperature between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.Measure the temperature in the shadeHold the thermometer close to eye level; it should never
be on the ground.Do not allow rain or snow to fall on the thermometer.
- Record the temperature each day in degrees Celsius.
Note: This
conversion calculator will convert degrees Fahrenheit to
Celsius.
Record the number of minutes of sunlight per day. This can
be done by recording the sunrise and sunset times each day and
then calculating the number of minutes of sunlight between sunrise
and sunset.
Find the Averages for the week:
- Temperature: Calculate the average temperature for the week
(rounded to the nearest tenth, e.g. 23.1 °C or 25.0 °C)
- Sunlight: Calculate the average minutes of sunlight per
day for the week (rounded to the nearest minute, e.g. 423 minutes)
- Please submit the average Temperature and Number of Minutes
of Sunlight per day to the Project
Data section of this web site.
Note: The Project Data submittal form will be made available immediately
after the data collection week (Dates to be Determined).
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