GLOBE Projects

GLOBE Side Navigation

Solar heating

Student(s):Heather Faircloth and Kate Christiansen
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Educator(s):Peter Dorofy
Contributors:
Report Type(s):
Protocols:Surface Temperature
Language(s):
Date Submitted:05/02/2013
Screen capture from presentation
For this project we went outside every day and measured the surface temperature of short grass, white concrete, asphalt, and water. We used our infrared thermometer and measured the temperature each time. We expected to see little to no change in the temperature of the water over the course of the weeks and we expected to see the biggest change in the asphalt since black absorbs the heat from the sun. We found that our hypothesis was right.



Comments

This is a nice project confirming global patterns at the local scale. Did any of your results surprise you? Would you change anything if you were to do this study again?
How did you become interested in this project?

What was the most challenging part of the research?
Thank you for sharing your project. You report does a nice job of describing it clearly. What do you think might be some possible implications of your findings?