From: St. Jude School, Class 6IB Final Report from St. Jude School, Class 6IB We are from St. Jude School in Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada. We are fifteen minutes away from Montreal which is a well known city of Canada. Montreal is a fascinating and very cosmopolitan city. You may want to check the following link to know more about our famous city. http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/ We are students of grade 6IB in Mrs. Mirza’s class. We got involved in this project because it presented us with a great opportunity to learn and practice our Science and Technology skills. We started off by learning about the geographical locations of all the participants. Mrs. Mirza taught us about our planet’s features such as the equator, lines of latitude and longitude. We did a project on Thermometer; its history, Celsius and Fahrenheit degrees and learned about some startling temperature readings. We also studied about our amazing sun and learned that its core is 15 million degrees celsius, due to nuclear fission. This project has aroused our curiosity to learn more about solar energy. We used our local meteorological data, newspaper and weather network website to record the data needed. We were only able to actually check the temperature outside on one day. After plotting the graphs, we found that there is a relationship in both cases. We discovered that as the latitude degrees move closer to the equator, the temperature rises and sunlight hours increase. This explains why we are getting much less daylight and lower temperatures compared to places like Florida. However, this theory did not hold true for Melbourne, Australia. It is farther away from the equator and yet it has more sunlight and has warmer temperatures. This made us examine the precise tilt of the earth toward the sun. We learned that it is actually summer in the southern hemisphere, because they are facing the sun nowadays. Some of our classmates raised interesting questions during our class discussion. One of us asked why a place very high up on the mountains is colder, when actually it gets closer to the sun. We are wondering why higher up in the atmosphere it is much colder. We think that collecting two weeks data as opposed to one week might be a good idea. There are a number of new concepts we learned by doing this project, In fact data management and charting is part of our math curriculum and we were pleased to learn about its practical value. It was interesting to learn how data analysis helps scientists explain various phenomena.