Today's Report Includes:
- This
Week's: Data, Questions
and Journal
- Links:
This Week's Mystery Class Resources
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| Sunrise/Sunset Data for Monday, Feb 25 | New! This Week's Questions (Handout) |
Mystery Class Journal (Journal page) |
From the photoperiod data and graphs, what do you know about the Mystery Classes' global addresses? What don't you know? What have you discovered about their longitude? Try the questions in this week's Handout above to explore this.
To
discover the longitude of the Mystery Classes, you'll
first need to understand some important things about time:
- Try
This! World
Clocks in your Classroom
- Learn
how to add more "time" to your classroom, and understand
what others around the globe are doing at a single moment >>
- Learn
how to add more "time" to your classroom, and understand
what others around the globe are doing at a single moment >>
Write
a "Right Now" story in your journal:
- Quick!
Snap your fingers and look at a clock. Write what the time of day is
in local time and Universal Time.
- Then, write what is happening at different places around the earth at that same moment.
You choose
the places, but try to include ones in at least twelve different time
zones; and be sure to include what the local time was at each place when
your finger snapped.
How
are things standing (or falling) so far? There's still time to conduct
this eggceptional experiment before, during
and after the equinox, March 20th!
Make a prediction of what you think your eggs will do from week to week.
Revisit that prediction each week as you continue testing >>
- A Clue About the Longitude Clues: Why They Only Work on the Equinox
- Build
Your Understanding About Earth's Daily Cycle >>
- Learn more about GMT >>
Mystery Class Deadlines:
- Know What to Expect and When -- Mark your Calendars >>
The Next Mystery Classs Update Will Be Posted on March 7, 2008.
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