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Photo from Journey North |
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Time Zone Map from Journey North |
Recap of our estimations thus far:
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Photo from Journey North |
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Time Zone Map from Journey North |
Recap of our estimations thus far:
Yesterday, we were able to position the 10 mystery class locations compared to our home location. We hope to have them in the right order. We will be able to verify once we receive more data. We now have 4 locations in the Southern Hemisphere and 6 in the Northern Hemisphere, our home is also in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Photo from Journey North |
We are taking part in Journey North Mystery Class once again this year – it will be our third attempt. Life always seems to pull us away from this awesome project and we’ve never finished.
Each week, the sunrise and sunset data from each of the ten mystery sites is reported. We thereby plot the sunrise and sunset time for each site on a graph. As the weeks progress, we connect the dots and a line graph is generated, providing a visual of the photoperiod (hours of daylight) for each location.
At the end of week #2, we were able to sort our data between Southern and Northern Hemisphere. We are able to do this by checking which locations are gaining increasing their photoperiod (Northern) and which ones are loosing daylight hours (Southern).
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photo from Journey North Mystery Class |
One location hasn’t changed its photoperiod. The kids presumed this one must be very close to the North Pole. Here is a recap of our findings this week:
MC # 1 – Northern Hemisphere
MC # 2 – Southern Hemisphere
MC # 3 – Northern Hemisphere
MC # 4 – Southern Hemisphere
MC # 5 – Northern Hemisphere
MC # 6 – Southern Hemisphere
MC # 7 – ??? – very close to North Pole
MC # 8 – Southern Hemisphere
MC # 9 – Northern Hemisphere
MC #10 – Northern Hemisphere