From: softball_babe_92@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:08:12 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope Elementary School Location: Walnut Grove, Langley, British Colombia, Canada Email Address: softball_babe_92@hotmail.com Experimenter: Chelsea Ingham Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.5 Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.28 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 Comments: I found this a difficult expariment even when i knew what to do!!!!! It must of been even more difficult for Eratosthenes because he had to find all the information and what to do from scratch!!!!!!!! I cant belive that he figured it out without almost no technologhy!!!!!! It is also unbelivable that his estimation is the same that scientits do today with all the tecnologhy. I think this is a great expariment for kids to do because they learn so much while having fun doing an experiment that a scientist did around 2000 years ago!!!!!! I find this experiment very interesting and great for eager kids who want to learn!!!!