Project 1: Sun Journal
Observe the location on the horizon of the rising or setting sun everyday for two weeks. To do this, make a sketch of your eastern or western horizon and show on the sketch where the sun is rising and setting. Make sure to indicate the dates and times of your observations. (To make it more accurate, you could take a picture of the horizon with a digital camera, blow it up, and print it off. Then you can make the observations on the picture)?
Write up a summary of your findings, and discuss what they have to do with the length of the day, and what season we are in.
Project 2: Moon Journal?
?Mark the location of the moon in the sky every night for a week. Your observations MUST be done at the same time each night. The purpose of this is to find out how much the moon’s position has changed relative to the background stars in a 24 hour period. You can do this by either making a sketch of the horizon and sky and showing where the moon is and the phase it’s in or by using a camera to take pictures to record the moon’s progression (if you use a camera do your best to include as much of the surrounding sky/horizon as possible).
Once all of your observations are done, put all the data together and write a ½ page single-spaced summary of what you learned
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