Hello from Mr. Jones' 5th graders at Leola Elementary School in Leola, PA , USA! As we took the results of the various schools and used post it notes to place the
schools and info. on our world and US map, we too realized that there were more minutes of sunlight as we moved north of the equator and fewer minutes as we
moved south of it.

Our other observation was that the amount of sunlight did not correlate to the temperature. You would think that more sunlight would mean higher temperatures, but this wasn't true. For example, the school from Melbourne, Australia averaged 635 minutes of sunlight and had an average temperature of 19 degrees C. Another school in Nova Scotia, Canada, had 854 minutes of sunlight, but temperatures averaged only 7 degrees C. More sunlight doesn't mean higher temperatures! Thanks for a great project!

E-mail: rick_jones@cvsd.k12.pa.us