From: meier_at_cajonvalley.net
Date: Sat Sep 24 2005 - 09:26:14 PDT
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Hillsdale Middle School School Location: 1301 Brabham Street El Cajon, California 92019 United States of America Email Address: meier_at_cajonvalley.net Experimenter: Carol Meier Latitude 32.777726 N Longitude: 116.919055 W Distance to Equator: 3642.687 km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 32 degrees Calculated Earth circumference: 40980.228 km Comments: My sixth grade (11 and 12 year old) honors math and science students performed this experiment on Thursday, September 22 at 12:45 p.m. (solar noon) for our area on that day. It was a perfect, sunny day to take our measurements. My students learned a lot and enjoyed performing this experiment. I am going to attempt to post their pictures to your web site.