Journey North Week Six and Seven

Because we have been out so much doing lots of exciting things my time to write up and blog our Journey north data has been limited. so I am incorporating our findings for 2 weeks.

m/class    wk1  wk2      wk3       wk4     wk5       wk6      wk7       wk8      wk9      wk10

#1	10.29	10.41	10.54	11.08	11.22	11.36	11.51
#2	13.32	13.21	13.10	12.59	12.46	12.34	12.21
#3	11.20	11.25	11.31	11.38	11.45	11.52	11.59
#4	13.52	13.38	13.25	13.10	12.56	12.40	12.25
#5	8.45	9.12	9.39	10.08	10.38	11.08	11.38
#6	18.43	16.44	16.04	15.52	*14.59	14.06	13.15
#7	12.04	12.04	12.04	12.05	12.05	12.05	12.06
#8	12.49	12.44	12.38	12.33	12.27	12.20	12.13
#9	10.36	10.46	10.59	11.12	11.24	11.39	11.52
#10	9.44	9.53	10.06	10.30	10.54	11.19	11.44
us	14.46	13.37	13.26	13.11	12.56	12.41	12.26

 Using the data we determined that :
In the North West hemisphere were #1,#5,#10
In the North East hemisphere were #3,#7,#9
In the South West hemisphere were #4
In the South East hemisphere were #2,#6,#8,and us!
We were able to predict the degrees in all whose sunrise was on the 12th March in UT but not for the following whose sunrise was on the 11th in UT:#3,#6,#7. We think that's right! And so we colored the degree section that the others occured in on a map.(see image below).

As you can see 2 classes share the same "possibilities"!

Journey North Week Five

This weeks clue concerned the prime meridian. Younger ds was fascinated with the image used("how did they do it, how can I make a photo look like that, its so cool!"etc...I can see another rabbit trail developing!)

We were asked to discover:How far east or west of the Prime Meridian we lived (in degrees)? What our time difference from Greenwich (in hours and minutes) was ?

Journey North Week Four

"Looking for a Mystery Class clue?
This year's 10 Mystery Classes are located in eight different time zones. When daylight saving time occurs, the 10 Mystery Classes will be located in eight different time zones." This is our clue for the week.Below is our data for this week:

m/class    wk1  wk2      wk3       wk4     wk5       wk6      wk7       wk8      wk9      wk10

#1	10.29	10.41	10.54	11.08
#2	13.32	13.21	13.10	12.59
#3	11.20	11.25	11.31	11.38
#4	13.52	13.38	13.25	13.10
#5	8.45	9.12	9.39	10.08
#6	18.43	16.44	16.04	15.52
#7	12.04	12.04	12.04	12.05
#8	12.49	12.44	12.38	12.33
#9	10.36	10.46	10.59	11.12
#10	9.44	9.53	10.06	10.30
us	14.46	13.37	13.26	13.11

  And talking of time, care to share your favourite time titled/themed books for kids: I'm starting with "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeline Engle "Tom's Midnight Garden"by Philippa Pearce "Grimble" by Clement Freud

"Earthfasts" by William Mayne
"A traveler in Time" Alison Utley

Journey North Week Three

We were given a picture of a polar bear to help us solve the mystery this week. Not the picture above but I thought it was too cute to miss!
Using the clue of where the bear can be found was easy for both boys.they had both read a certain book about a particular group of penguins when they were younger. Anyway amongst other information the book describes that penguins and polar bears do not inhabit the same polar region. So if penguins live at the south pole, guess where polar bears are found(apart from zoos!)?!...Easy!

Here are all the mystery classes coloured in, on our graphs for weeks one to three. As an added activity we decided to table all the photoperiods to date.

  Another clue we were given was that there are more classes in the northern hemisphere.








 Here are our Northern hemisphere classes

 And our Southern classes with our own results below

Journey North Update

This beautiful sunrise was God's gift to me when I woke "earlyish" this morning. The day started with quiet and peace,  and beauty splashed across the sky, what more could you ask for!

However it also reminded me about two other bloggers I discovered who are also participating in the Journey North Mystery

The first is called Canadian Home Learning  and has these posts about the project. I have only looked briefly at her blog but it seems packed full of  interesting learning  "stuff". I need to go back and check out more!

Here is a link to the second blog's posting I really like this blog and would love to visit such a cool place! The blog is called You're Not lost,You're Here!