Daylight Hours

In this activity, students explore the number of daylight hours as a function of time, looking for and interpreting connections between the graphs of the function and its derivative. Screen 1 image source: http://halimk.iics-k12.com/files/2014/02/earthlatitudergb.jpg Activity inspiration: http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html http://herbert.gandraxa.com/length_of_day.xml

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