Gold Creek School 

Global Sun and Temperature Project Page

Gold Creek School - Year 8/2001-2002

This activity is coordinated by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, USA. Click here  to visit this site.

Click here to view the data that Gold Creek School collected in May 2001.
Click here to view data that Gold Creek School collected in November 2001.
Click here to view data that Gold Creek School collected in May 2002
Links to other sites for the Sun, Earth and Moon Project are available here

The aim of this project was for students around the world to collect measurements of day length and shade temperatures for the week 14 to 18 May 2001, from 29 October to 2 November 2001. and from 29 April to 3 May 2002.  This data was sent to the project coordinators web site where it was checked and then made available for participants to download.

Some edited data that Gold Creek School collected is tabulated below,  We took our temperature measurements in the sun as well as the shade.  Only shade temperatures were required by the project.  Temperatures were taken as close to 1.00 pm as possible.  All measurements are in degrees Celsius.  Multiple readings were taken each day.  Average values were then calculated.  

Data collected from 14 May to 18 May 2001.

Data collected from 29 October to 2 November 2001.

As an extension to the collection of data on temperature and day length we also collected data on the length of a shadow cast by a metre rule.  Data for this is tabulated at the bottom.

Data collected from 29 April to 3 May 2002:

The data that was collected from 29 April to 3 May 2002 can be downloaded by clicking here.  The data that can be seen here has been corrected by the project coordinators.  The name of this file, S02tempdata.xls, is indicative that it is now spring in the northern hemisphere.  Click on the following links to download data from previous years.  File names reflect northern hemisphere seasons

F00checkeddata.xls
F01tempdata.xls
s01checkeddata.xls 
S02tempdata.xls

For details on how to use Excel  as a graphing tool for this project students will need to visit the student work page.  Click here to reach this page.

Shadow length data was not collected in May 2002.

Links to Other Sites 

The following sites were useful in finding some of the data that was required for various projects.  Sites listed are generally related to Australian data.

1) General information about the four seasons Canberra experiences including information about temperature averages, rainfall averages can be found at,

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/climate/levelthree/ausclim/zones.htm#two

http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/act/010101.shtml

2) Sunrise and sunset times as well as sun elevation angles and sun azimuth can be found at,

http://www.auslig.gov.au/geodesy/astro/astro.htm

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/      (This is an excellent source of information)

3) Sites that will help you find information about the moon are as follows

http://www.googol.com/moon/

http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm#Moon

http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/phanover/moon_webquest_home.htm

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/moon_phases.html

4) Sites about our Solar System

One of the best astronomy sites is the Nine Planets site.  Here is a wealth of information concerning our solar system. 

The Nine Planets for Kids Site:    http://www.staq.qld.edu.au/k9p/

The main Nine Planets site:    http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Pictures of the Planets are available here:    http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Planets WebQuest:    http://www.davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/planets/planets.htm

5) Sites about Solar Flares and Our Sun

This an excellent introductory site on Solar Flares: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/2683/sunhome.htm

A more detailed NASA site on Solar Flares is located:
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/

An excellent compilation of sites covering most aspects of the Sun is:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Astronomy/Solar_System/Sun/

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