Students should organize the information into various systematic structures through which they can compare and contrast the numbers and graphs contained in this page of the newspaper. Students are to compare published local sunrise times across the same time zone and see how they change with both north to south separation, and east to west separation. Find the section of the newspaper that reports the times for sunrise and sunset. Telecompute the data in this chart with the other schools with which you are cooperating in this investigation. Each student should graph weekly results on graph paper.
Scientists work in a very methodical fashion.
Maintaining accurate records of observations and measurements is a key component in this systematic method. Every student should keep accurate chronological records, possibly in a scientific investigation journal or science lab book, of everything done in the investigation. These notes should be placed within each student's portfolio for assessment purposes. Resources for basic information are essential to scientific investigations. Many of these resources are available to the general public and contain lots of information on a variety of subjects.