The Noon Observation Project
March 1996
- What is the Noon Observation Project?
The Noon Observation project is a joint effort among interested schools
worldwide in accurately estimating the circumference of the earth.
- Introductory message describing the project organization
- What can we learn from this Project?
The learning process is enhanced through mathematics, geography, as well
as introducing the Internet, and of course, just having fun!
- How to compute local noon at your location, so that you know
when to schedule your observations.
- A form for submitting your Noon Observations
- An explanation of the formulas for computing the Earth's
circumference from the shadow lengths
- Eras??? Who???
You know. The ancient Greek!
- Who is involved in the 1996 Noon Observation Project?
- Who was involved in the 1995 Noon Observation Project last year?
A listing of participants in last year's Noon 1995 Project, by country.
- How do I become involved with the Project?,
A brief summary of the Project and what you need to do to become involved.
- A description of the original
network-based Noon Project done in 1988, which is part of an article by
Levin, Rogers, Waugh & Smith
that appeared in The Computing Teacher
- Pictures of students from Central
High School (Champaign, Illinois) measuring the noon
shadow.
- Pictures
of students from Walkersville High School
(Walkersville, MD) measuring the noon shadow.
- Pictures of
students from
Paducah Middle School (Paducah, KY) measuring the noon
shadow.
- Pictures
from the 1995 Noon Project.
- Acknowledgements
If you have any suggestions, questions or comments, please send mail to:
ksmith@ncsa.uiuc.edu