England-2011-labs

Lab 1: Where Am I?

Overview

There are lots of interesting and historic places in Greenwich, there are also some places that are fairly ordinary. Working in your lab groups (see below) you will locate one such place, determine it's latitude and longitude a couple of different ways, determine the altitude a couple of different ways, and measure the shortest distance from that point to the Prime Meridian.

Once you have completed the data collection in Greenwich you and your lab partners will analyze the data and describe the results in a lab report which will be due next week.

Make sure that at least one person in each lab group brings a laptop with them to Greenwich. It will make some aspects of the lab much easier. If you have a minute to install Google Earth before tomorrow that would be even better.

Lab Groups

Listed below are your scientifically chosen lab groups along with a description of the fairly ordinary place you will need to locate.

Red: Lily, Bill, Emily

• The bb corner of bb and bb.

Green: Krystnell, Johanna, Spencer

• The bb corner of bb and bb.

Yellow: Mamus, Ivan, Vivian

• The bb corner of bb and bb.

Black: Eva, Gillian

• The bb corner of bb and bb.

Purple: McKayla, Ben

• The bb corner of bb and bb.

Questions

Once you folks begin working on the lab I will be available to answer questions, loan tools, make smart remarks, etc. You can find me at roughly

• Some distance from the obscure thing you'll find me, I'll have tools, answers to questions, clarifications about the assignment, etc.

• Determine the latitude at something obscure using at least three different tools/methods.
• Determine the longitude at something obscure using at least three different tools/methods.
• Determine the elevation at something obscure using at least three different tools/methods.
• Determine the minimum distance in meters from something obscure to the Prime Meridian using at least two different tools/methods.

• Well reasoned and accurate estimate.
• Measuring by angle of elevation and distance.
• Measuring by calibrated human pace.
• GPS device (I have one to loan for 1 hour time blocks on Saturday)
• Google Earth

• Future lab where each group has to measure-off a distance using their best technique, user chosen.