From: 5th Grade Quest Indialantic Elementary The Sun Times Final Report We are 5th grade Quest students from Indialantic Elementary in Indialantic, Florida. This is our first time to participate in The Sun Times Project and we want to do it again in the spring because it’s been fun. We first looked at the data chart and decided which schools or locations we wanted to analyze. We chose ones in our state first and then picked ones that classmates liked. We noticed similarities within our state right off. The temperatures were warmer as the schools went south in Florida and cooler as they went north. Something interesting and surprising that we learned was that the actual minutes of sunlight grew shorter each day that we collected our temperatures. Next, we looked at the average minutes of daylight because we thought the places would be warmer if they received more sunlight. First, we analyzed Mooroolbark College’s information because they had the highest average for minutes of sunlight. However, their average temperature wasn’t the highest. So we looked at the location in reference to latitude and longitude next. We liked using the website that was listed because it was easy to find out information that we needed for this project. As we looked at more data we noticed locations closer to the equator had more minutes of daily sunlight and the temperatures were warmer on the average. We concluded that this must be due to the tilt of the earth and that the southern hemisphere receives more direct sun rays than the northern hemisphere. We are already wondering what effect will be seen in the spring! Next time, we will make more graphs that show the data in different ways so we can make more conclusions.We enjoyed using the digital thermometers and seeing all of the schools over the world that participated!