our first draft of the paper

Background Information:

We began our project knowing that we wanted to study something that had to do with the moon. One thing came to mind when we were discussing the moon was how come the moon always looks like it is following us if we are driving or walking or just traveling anywhere. So we said that we wanted to build our project around that idea.
We started out needing to finding basic information on the moon. We started out with the mass of the moon that is 7.34. We found out that the density if the of the moon 3.34 (gm/cm). Last piece of information that was really important to us was how far away was the moon from earth. We found the moon is 384,403 kilometers (2,163 miles.) The moon travels around the earth once per month, that is called a cycle. The time between the sequence in new moons is 29.5 days.


Question:

How far does the moon travel in a curtain amount of time? And is it the same distance?

Hypothesis:

We knew that the moon travels. We knew that because the moon travels aroung the earth, and that is how we get day and night. We thought that if we times how far the moon would go in a certain amount of time, it would move but we just would not notice it until we measured it. But one of our major guesses was that after the fact when we measured the moon for about 6 weeks and we compared the measurements they really would not have a pattern. But we are really not sure if it will or if it won’t.

Materials:

Empty paper towel roll
Protractor
Bobby pin
String
Graphing transparent paper
3 sharpies

Procedure:

1. We go up to Savasia roof top and find the spot where we can see the moon the best. Then we mark the spot with a bottle or something so we know where we were standing
2. We make we know the time so we know when yo come back up. One person holds on to the paper towel roll up to the ski pointing do that the moon is right in the center of the roll.
3. Then another person make a spot on the excite spot were the first person see the moon in the roll.
4. Then a third person takes a protractor and sticks a string into the hole at the bottom of the protractor, then tie a bobby to the bottom of the string.
5. Then that third person hold the protractor next to the paper towel roll and let the string hang and that would be the angle measurement.
6. Make sure that you record everything that you do.
7. Repeat this about 2 more times every half hour. Make sure that you record EVERYTHING that you notice, so thing, everything. Also when you sre recording where the moon is make sure you use different color markers each time you graph where the moon is at that time.


Experiment:

When we did our experiment the first time we did our experiment instead of us going up every 30 minutes we went up every hour. But when we did go up every hour the moon had went so far, it had traveled behind the building in front of us. So the second time we did it, it was harder because there were cloudy, and we really could not see the moon clearly. The clouds would keep moving in front of the moon but we got our measurements. Also when we did the second time we went up every half an hour.
We thought it was better for us to do it every half an hour, because we got more measurements and it was easier to find the moon. One problem that we were having was that one was actually taking notes on what was going on. Everyone was busy helping with the actual experiment, no one was writing down the problems we were having and things like that. We also did not have anyone to take pictures or any proof of the experiment.




Analyzing Data:










Conclusion:
We do not have actual conclusions because or project is not done yet. But from what we did together as a group we do know that when the moon travels it does have some kind of a pattern. As we continue our studies now our main goal will be to find out exactly what that pattern is. So for now I would have to say our conclusion is that the moon will move the same distance each half hour, every day each time.( from what we have seen so far.)










Conclusion:
We do not have actual conclusions because or project is not done yet. But from what we did together as a group we do know that when the moon travels it does have some kind of a pattern. As we continue our studies now our main goal will be to find out exactly what that pattern is. So for now I would have to say our conclusion is that the moon will move the same distance each half hour, every day each time.( from what we have seen so far.)