Real
Time Adventures on the Internet Applying
Knowledge in the Real World
New
Century School Karachi, Pakistan
"Greetings
to everyone participating in the Global Sun/Temperature
Project. Thank you for taking the time to read this
introduction.
We
are thousands of miles away, on the other side of the world,
from most of the schools participating in this project.
Therefore, we hope to add to the diversity of discussions
that may take place in this forum." - Spring 2001
Latitude
(Degrees)
Longitude
(Degrees)
Average
Daily Temperature (C)
Average
Sunlight (Minutes)
24.54
67.09
32.9
802
Students who
participated in the project.
"Several
teams of students have participated in the project."
Students
collecting temperature data.
"We
learnt a little bit about the science of temperature and
sunlight measurement."
Student
presentations.
"We
learnt about Earth's rotation, its orbit and the effect of
its tilt on our seasons."
Graph of data
that was collected from all sites.
"We
plotted the data reported by all the schools. We noticed an
almost linear relationship between degrees latitude and
average daily sunlight (see graph below). We noted with
curiosity that the schools in southern hemisphere (negative
latitudes) seem to have shorter days (less sunlight time).
We think that one reason for this could be that it is winter
season in the southern hemisphere as opposed to summer
in the northern hemisphere, where we are!"
