Friday, October 26, 2012

10.25.12/10.26.12 Sunlight Intensity

Agenda

  • Sunlight Intensity notes 
    • Major concepts:  Angle of incidence, solstices & equinoxes, temperature changes on latitude, Important latitudes (tropic of cancer, tropic of capricorn, arctic and antarctic circles)
  • Sunlight angle lab - students use a flashlight to investigate the effect of angle of incidence on the amount of heat absorbed by an individual
  • Sunlight Intensity lab - students use a GLX explorer probe to measure temperature differences based on latitude
Objective
  • Students will accurately identify the effect of the Earth's tilted axis
Homework
  • Finish lab questions

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