Kenneth Cole
March 4, 1998

Noon Shadow Project Scavenger Hunt

Today in class you are to take part in a World Wide Web scavenger hunt. The information that I am asking you to find can be found by following links from the Noon Shadow Project ’98 link on the Faubion Home Page. Find the answer to as many of the following questions as you can. You must turn this paper in to Mrs. Nelson by the end of class today. Remember, this is a scavenger hunt, not everyone will find all of the answers. Your job is to find as many answers as you can. Some of the questions may be easy to find, and others maybe hard to find. Good Luck! See you tomorrow.

—Mr. Cole

Scavenger Hunt Questions:

1. What can we learn from the Noon Shadow Project?
   
   
2. List five schools that were involved in the Noon Shadow Project in 1997. Give the latitude and longitude of each of the schools.
   
   
3. Local noontime occurs halfway between _______________ and ____________________.
   
   
   
4. When did Eratosthenes live?
   
   
5. What was his occupation?
   
   Where did he live?
   
   
6. What is the Vernal Equinox? How many days are there until the Vernal Equinox?
   
   
7. On March 20, 1997 Faubion Middle School took part in the Noon Project for the first time. What was our Local Noontime on that day?
   
   
   
8. What did Eratosthenes calculate using the Noontime shadow?
   
   
9. In what city is Stevens Institute of Technology located?
   
   
10. Where is Central Academy located (city, state)?
    
    
11. Name five Faubion Middle School students who wrote a poem about the Sun last year.
    
    
    
    
    
12. What are the two schools in Texas that took part in the Noon Shadow Project ’97?
    
    
    
13. What are the names of two schools that took part in the Noon Project ’97 from Australia?

FMS Noon '98

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