Eratosthenes - June solstice

  • PRODUCTIONS of the activity:

     

    Eratosthenes in 360 BEST.pdf

    And a "sample" in flipsnack for an embed version(free version of flipsnack is up to 30 pages)

    WORKING PROCESS

    A summary and easy-accessed shared working space is this slide. Please use the links in the first slide for guidelines and share this link to your students  https://bit.ly/30DJw7K :

     

     

    Eratosthenes historic experiment explained on this video:

     

     

    More details generally for the experiment that can be conducted ant day

    (you could join Ertaosthenes eTwinning project as well)

     

    Christiane's experience:

    "How to procede to take a measurement for the Eratosthenes activity"

    - choose an object that will produce a shadow (wooden stick, book, box, etc)

    example: 

    - make sure to have a horizontal soil

    - make sure to have a vertical line from the top of the object to the ground (it is easier if you choose a gnomon like the stick as the shadow that you will measure must be of an object vertical to the ground)

    - take the measure from the vertical line to the end of the shadow at solar noon

    (solar noon is when the shadow of the object is the shortest but you can check the exact time of your solar noon in this link https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/ if you enter your latitude and longitude)

    -check on google maps for the coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) of your place  (...° N ,  ...° E): https://www.google.com/maps

    a) right click on your place

    b)click on "what's here?"

    c) on the popup window, under the name of your place you can see the coordinates.  

    - post the measurement:

    • date, time your measurement (remember that you must make the measurement +/- 10mins around solar noon), 
    • town, country, school,  longitude and latitude,
    • height of your gnonom (object) in centimeters,
    • length of the shadow of the object in centimeters

     

    When do we have to measure?

    Especially for the solstice, we can make a measurement  any day (or days) from 15 June till 23 June.  The partner for each one of us will be the cancer tropic(Latitude 23.437° any point Νorth of the Equator).

    RESULTS???

    The results will be announced in this page every evening by the admins so nothing more for you to do

    And...what comes next?

    You could try the measurement ANY DAY of the year, too! And in that case you need  Collaboration among the partners

    IF other schools will do the measurement on the SAME DAY at THEIR time of solar noon,  then admins can find for your data the best partner  to calculate the circumference of the earth. How? Nothing you need to do about that. But you can check the following video in a language that you understand better, if you want to see how this collaboration works:


     

    An example of collaborative measurement (Lafrancaise and Petroupoli) of Earth's circumference in this video in English

    and in this one in French (Lafrancaise and Ioannina)

    So, when we start our measurements?

     ANY DAY starting from now. 

     

  • Here we can post our data (date, local time of measurement, town, country, school, latitude, longitude,height of gnomon, length of shadow)AND photo

    7 - Ioannina 7 GRC - 7th Junior High School, GREECE

    Date and time of measurement: 10:33 – 13:42
    9th of June 2020

    4th Junior High School of Petroupoli, Greece

    14-06-2020, Gnomon:40cm Shadow:10.5cm Solar noon at 13:25

    College antonin Perbosc

    14 June 2020, Gnomon:100cm Shadow: 37.9cm

    St.-Irmengard-Gymnasium

    13 June 2020 Gnomon:107cm Shadow:48cm

    7th Junior High school of Ioannina 09-06-2020
    St.-Irmengard-Gymnasium 13-06-2020
    4th Junior High School of Petroupoli 14-06-2020
    College Antonin Perbosc 14-06-2020
    9-Guarne COL - Astrofanaticos Group

    16 June 2020
    Gnomon:61cm
    Shadow: 18.9cm

    Grupo Astrofánaticos 16-06-2020
    7-National College "Grigore Ghica, Dorohoi, Romania

    Date:17.06.2020
    Time:13,20
    Gnomon: 158
    Shadow: 78
    Dorohi:Latitudine:26.394
    Longitudine:47.953

    7-National College "Grigore Ghica, Dorohoi, Romania

    Data; 17.06.2020
    Time: 13,24
    Gnomon: 132
    Shadow: 66
    Dorohoi: Latitudine:26.394; Longitudine:47.953

    National College "Grigore Ghica" 17-06-2020

    measure 1

    National College "Grigore Ghica" 17-06-2020

    measure 2

    Lozova Secondary School № 12

    June, 17 at 12:36 Gnomon:60cm Shadow:28.5cm Angle:25.4°

    Lozova Secondary School № 12 17-06-2020
    4th Junior High School of Petroupoli, Greece

    17 June (38.036N, 23.674E) Gnomon:40cm Shadow:10.4cm solar noon at 13:26 Measurement at home

    Results for 4th Junior High School of Petroupoli, 17 June 2020
    8-Agiasos-GRC

    Date: 18/06/2020
    Time: 13:12 pm
    Longitude: 39.086
    Latitude: 26.371
    Gnomon: 80 cm
    Shadow: 25 cm

    18 June -Agiasos Gymnasium Results
    7-National College "Grigore Ghica, Dorohoi, Romania (measurement 2)

    19.06.2020
    noon at 13,15
    Dorohoi, Romania
    Latitudine:26394
    Longitudine: 47953
    Gnomon: 25 cm
    Shadow: 15,70

    7-National College "Grigore Ghica, Dorohoi, Romania (measurement 1)

    19.06.2020
    noon at 13,17
    Dorohoi, Romania
    Latitudine: 26394
    Longitudine: 47953
    Gnomon: 53,2 cm
    Shadow:25 cm

    Results for Dorohoi 1st measurement 19 June
    Results for Dorohoi 2nd measurement 19 June
    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    made by Gabriel Gutic Constantin
    20.06.2020, noon at 13,17, Dorohoi, Romania, Gnomon:39 cm, Shadow: 12 cm

    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    made by Maria Pintilie
    20.06.2020, noon at 13,15, Dorohoi, Romania
    Gnomon: 117
    Shadow: 64

    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    made by Alexandra Barbacariu
    20.06.2020, noon at 13,16, Dorohoi, Romania
    Gnomon 23 cm
    Shadow: 14 cm

    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    20.06.2020, noon at 13,16, Dorohoi, Romania
    Gnomon: 119 cm
    Shadow: 60 cm

    College antonin Perbosc

    18 June 2020
    Gnomon:12.5cm
    Shadow: 5cm

    College Antonin Perbosc 18-06-2020
    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    bya tube) Maria Pintilie (measurement 1 - a tube)
    21.06.2020, noon at 12,20
    Dorohoi, Romania (26394 E, 47953 N)
    Gnomon: 18 cm
    Shadow: 10 cm

    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    by Maria Pintilie measurement 2 - a book
    21.06.2020, noon at 13,20
    Dorohoi, Romania (26394 E, 47953 N)
    Gnomon: 21 cm
    Shadow: 11 cm

    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    21.06.2020, noon at 13,18
    Dorohoi, Romania (26.394 E, 47.953 N)
    Gnomon: 49,5 cm
    Shadow: 29 cm

    Results Dorohoi-20/02/2020-Lidia
    Results Dorohoi-20/06/2020 Maria
    Results Dorohoi-20/06/2020 Alexandra (1)
    Results Dorohoi-20/06/2020 Alexandra(2)
    Results Dorohoi-20/06/2020 Gabriel
    Results, Lafrancaise, 18/06/2020
    Results-Dorohoi-21/06/2020 Lidia
    Results Dorohoi-21/06/2020 Maria(1-book)
    Results Dorohoi-21/06/2020 Maria(2nd measurement)
    Petroupoli, 21/06/2020

    Gnomon:40cm
    Shadow:10.4cm
    Measurement at solar noon 13:25 local time
    by Ioanna

    Results Petroupoli-21/06/2020
    7-Ioannina-PRO GRC

    Mesure du 21-6-2020
    Collège Modèle de Zosimaias Scholis Ioannina, Grèce
    21-6-2020: Latidude: 39.655, Longitude: 20.846, Gnomon: 100cm, Longueur de l'ombre: 28,8 cm, Heure locale: 13:35

    RESULTS for 7-Ioannina-PRO (Zosimaia) 21/06/2020
    8-Agiasos-GRC

    2nd measurement
    Date: 21/06/2020
    Time: 13:15 pm
    Longitude: 39.086
    Latitude: 26.371
    Gnomon: 80 cm
    Shadow: 22.5 cm

    Results For Gymnasio Agiasos-21/06/2020
    4th Junior High School of Petroupoli, Erikaiti, 21 June, 38.036N, 23.674E, Gnomon:26.5cm Shadow:7.6cm
    Results for PEtroupoli, Erikaiti 21-06-2020
    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    22.06.2020, noon at 13,15
    Dorohoi, Romania (26.394 E, 47.953 N)
    Gnomon:140 cm
    Shadow: 67 cm
    Angle: 25.34=25.574

    7- Dorohoi, Romania

    22.06.2020, noon at 13,23
    Dorohoi, Romania (26.394 E, 47.953 N)
    Gnomon: 29 cm
    Shadow: 14 cm
    Angle: 25.46=25.769

    Results for Garmisch-Partenkirschen first measurement 22/06/2020
    Results for Garmisch-Partenkirschen second measurement 22/06/2020
    Results for Dorohoi first measurement 22/06/2020
    Results for Dorohoi second measurement 22/06/2020
    RESULTS Khust 23-06-2020

    Slarka Gnomon:81cm Shadow28cm Angle:19.1 (12:10)

    RESULTS Khust 23-06-2020

    Alex Gnomon:100cm Shadow34cm Angle:18:8° (12:03)

    RESULTS Khust 23/06/2020

    Kristian (12:05) Gnomon:150cm Shadow:70cm

    RESULTS Khust 23-06-2020

    Valentyna (12:00) Gnomon:54cm Shadow:17cm

    7.Salcuta, Moldova
    7-Sfax ep TUN

    Sfax/Tunisia
    Kristian (12:05)
    Gnomon:150cm
    Shadow:63 cm