Mystery
Class Update: March 10, 2006
Today's
Report Includes:
- Most Recent Sunrise/Sunset Data
- The Longitude Clues Are Here!
- Note to Teachers with Younger Students
- Let's Get Started! Instructions to Approximate Longitude
- Converging or Diverging? Discussion of Challenge Question #3 & #4
- What's Coming Next? Check the Calendar
Most Recent Sunrise/Sunset Data
The sixth set of Sunrise/Sunset data has now arrived:
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The Longitude Clues Are Here!
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Using them is one of the most exciting and revealing steps in the quest, and more clues are still to come in the following weeks.
Everything that you need to use the Longitude Clues is in today's report below. So have fun and good luck!
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Need
a refresher course before you begin? See last week's: The Longitude Problem |
Note to Teachers with Younger Students
For teachers with younger students, please don't be discouraged by this set of challenging clues--the clues will be easier after this, and at the end of the Mystery Class activity, we will group the answers by grade level, so all participants are grouped with others near their same grade level.
Let's Get Started! Instructions to Approximate Longitude
| IMPORTANT: Be sure to read and follow ALL the instructions very carefully. |
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1) Print 10 copies of the GMT Worksheet (one for each secret Mystery site) and follow the step-by-step instructions on the Worksheet to estimate the approximate Longitude of each Mystery Class: |
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2) In order to use the GMT Worksheet, you will also need to print out the: |
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3)
To help get you started, we've already calculated the approximate
Longitude for two of this year's Mystery Class sites, using
the GMT Worksheet (two freebies!). |
Converging or Diverging? Discussion of Challenge Questions #3 & #4
The
photoperiod graph lines reveal more each week, and this week is no exception.
Your answers to Challenge Question #3 let us compare current weather and
climate changes at two locations, while your answers to Challenge Question
#4 give a prediction of the future. What's Next? Check the Calendar
| February 3- April 14: | Each Friday, Sunrise/Sunset Times are posted for the ten Mystery Sites. |
| Feb
17, 24, Mar.3: |
Getting Ready for the Longitude Clues |
| March 10: | The "Longitude Clues" are posted. |
| March 17, 24 & 31, April 7 & 14 | Interdisciplinary clues from the Mystery Sites are posted each week. (Please Note--out of fairness to all participants, we will only post the clues on their scheduled dates.) |
| April 21: Deadline for Your Answers! | No
late entries will be accepted (out of fairness to all participants,
no exceptions.) |
| April 28: | Mystery Sites Revealed! |
| May 5: | Meet Your Mystery Friends! |
Have
Questions? See
Mystery Class FAQ |
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The Next Mystery Class Update Will Be Posted on March 17, 2006
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