Observing the Sun for a Day.

By Daniel

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

1. What shape (or pattern) did the sun appear to make in the sky over the course of the day? What evidence do you have to support your explanation?
2. How did the height of the sun change during the day? What evidence do you have to support your explanation?
3. Why was it important to use the same landmark(s) for each observation and have a permanent spot to record our observations from?
4. When you look at your data from the day, how did the sun’s position seem to change over time?
5. If you did the same activity next week, do you think you would see the same pattern of movement of the sun? Why or why not?
6. What about next month?
7. What about 6 months from now?
8. Based on your observations, where do you think the sun goes every evening?
   

1. It made an ark shape. I have evidence because I know that when the Earth is spinning around it's axis the axis is not straight up and downs so when the Earth spins the sun looks like and ark.
2. The height of the sun changed during the day it started low got high than got low again. I have evidence that it did this because the Earths axis is on an angle and when it spins you see more and more of the sun than after noon you see less and less. So it looks like it's moving across the sky.
3. It is important to use the same landmark for each observation b because then you can see the difference more clearly.
4.When I looked at the dat I noticed that it made an ark shape it started a little over the trees then  it got higher than after noon it got lower again.
5. If I did this experiment again next week I think that I would find similar results but at noon the sun would just be a tiny bit lower because I know the closer I get to winter the lower the sun gets.
6. If I did this experiment again next month I think that again I would see the ark shape but the sun would rise a little later, be a little lower at noon and set sooner.
7.  In the next six months I would see something totally different. I would still see the ark shape but the sun would be rising sooner, higher at noon, and setting later. Also every day the sun would be getting higher at noon not lower.
8. I know that the sun doesn't go anywhere and that we are the ones that are actually moving. But the Earth is spinning so that is why it looks like the sun is going across the sky but when it is night that is when we can't see the sun the other side of the world is day and they can see this sun.