From: Grade 8, Earth Science, Carle Place, N. Y., U.S.A. Carle Place 8th grade Science Olympiad / Earth Science class located at Carle Place, NY would like to express our thanks for allowing us to share in this opportunity. We used this project as a reinforcement tool when we studied Climate in our Earth Science class. We used the real-life data to understand why places around the same latitude does not have the same temperature. Our school is equipped with a weather station so each day we recorded the data from the weather station. We also used thermometers place in the court yard as a form of comparison. (This helped us understand the importance of instruments). The sunlight hours were calculated using the data from the local newspaper. This activity gave us practice in subtracting using units of time (a skill needed when understanding Earthquake waves) To construct our graph we used the cities located in the US only. We concluded that as you get closer to the equator temperature increases and daylight hours decreases. This helped us understand the concept of the angle of isolation, tilt of the earth on its axis, seasons and nearness to large bodies of water. We found this project to be interesting and made difficult concept easier to understand. Thank you again.