From: mental_man_8@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:11:26 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope Elementary School Location: Walnut Grove, Langley, British Columbia, Canada Email Address: mental_man_8@hotmail.com Experimenter: Tom Ouellette Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.5 km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.28 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 Comments: Supplies we used are: A string on a stick It was very fun because the string and the stick were very good together. They are the essentials. The shadow would smetimes get blocked but we would unblock it becuse we were in the way. Your idea was very good for this project. Are idea was good to because we used oonly three or four thngs all together. At the start of the year we read a book on erathostenese, it was very intresting because people that measured were trained to do that. I wonder why thats all they did , walk around measuring like slaves. Also he used the stick idea too. erathostenese was also very smart lke us today even though they didnt have any good schools or schooling.