I suggest that you make a chart or table before sketching the moon each night. In the table, include the degree, direction, and date of each observation. It makes it easier to sketch the moons on your posterboard.
Make sure to start early. I agree with Tom’s comment on observing twice. It’s never an issue to double check your data and to have solid results. Don’t slack off about going out and observing, either, because it only takes a few minutes and the end result is pretty neat.
I would have to agree with Amanda and say that by making a chart and displaying your information in a way that is easy to read is very important. Becoming sloppy in your drawings will also make things harder when it comes time to make your poster. And actually do put time into it becuase it will show if you didnt.
When planning out your sketches of the moon, research the azimuth and plot the degrees around the horizon as well as above so that sketches can be more accurate.
The tip I would give would be to use a compass to get the actual directions of the moon. I would also recommend to make an organized chart when you do the sketches of the moon. Make sure to include the degrees and direction so you don’t mix them up with other days.
Do the project early. Also, put effort into the project. That way when you have to present what you did, then it is a piece of cake to talk about your project and there won’t be a need to search for words.
Take 2 minutes to research the dates of the new moons that occur throughout the semester. These dates will be the required start times unless you would rather make observations starting at the full moon, but at 5 AM (sunrise as opposed to sunset).
Start the project early! If you wait until the last minute you will be making it a lot more difficult. Also be certain to read your instructions for the project very carefully before you begin!… I did not read the instructions beforehand and I missed a couple of required items that I was supposed to prepare. Charting the height of the moons along with the phase will also help the appearance of your diagram.
Start early. Research the upcoming dates for the different moon phases categories of the project to give yourself a clear timeline for your possible observations.
Having all the data on a hand written board helped me transfer it over to a show quality project. Start as early as possible on this project. Don’t glue or paste anything down to your board until you are satisfied that all of the criteria for the project has been met.
Make sure that you start early and try to start at a time of the year that has the best weather. This will help you be more driven to do your work with your best effort and be passionate about it.
You can’t do this project unless you get it done at least a month in advance. It just won’t happen.
I did it in early April with assistance from a friend of mine and it helped me get some really solid data. If you take numbers on everything you can, you can use them to help fix your drawing later if you need to.
Be really careful with how you set up your initial drawing, and make sure all the data points you need are there. I missed putting down the direction and azimuth angles at first and ended up having to do more work using a protractor and a piece of string. The more care you put into the initial setup means you’ll have a better presentation of the final product anyways, so just do it right the first time.
(getting it done way ahead of time means you can go back out and do it again if you have to!)
Use graphs. Graphs are your friend. They’re easy to look at and understand.
Don’t copy paste the procedure from the project outline if you want a great score.
I do consider all the concepts you’ve presented for your post. They are very convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very brief for newbies. May you please lengthen them a little from next time? Thank you for the post.
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Start early, don’t wait till the last minute. Do it twice.
I suggest that you make a chart or table before sketching the moon each night. In the table, include the degree, direction, and date of each observation. It makes it easier to sketch the moons on your posterboard.
Make sure to start early. I agree with Tom’s comment on observing twice. It’s never an issue to double check your data and to have solid results. Don’t slack off about going out and observing, either, because it only takes a few minutes and the end result is pretty neat.
I would have to agree with Amanda and say that by making a chart and displaying your information in a way that is easy to read is very important. Becoming sloppy in your drawings will also make things harder when it comes time to make your poster. And actually do put time into it becuase it will show if you didnt.
Start early. Try to start the observations and the specified time, they will give better and more accurate results.
When planning out your sketches of the moon, research the azimuth and plot the degrees around the horizon as well as above so that sketches can be more accurate.
The tip I would give would be to use a compass to get the actual directions of the moon. I would also recommend to make an organized chart when you do the sketches of the moon. Make sure to include the degrees and direction so you don’t mix them up with other days.
Do the project early. Also, put effort into the project. That way when you have to present what you did, then it is a piece of cake to talk about your project and there won’t be a need to search for words.
Take 2 minutes to research the dates of the new moons that occur throughout the semester. These dates will be the required start times unless you would rather make observations starting at the full moon, but at 5 AM (sunrise as opposed to sunset).
Get an early start on this to get it out of the so when the time comes you will not be rushing to get it done
Start the project early! If you wait until the last minute you will be making it a lot more difficult. Also be certain to read your instructions for the project very carefully before you begin!… I did not read the instructions beforehand and I missed a couple of required items that I was supposed to prepare. Charting the height of the moons along with the phase will also help the appearance of your diagram.
I strongly recommend that you start working on your project early on the semester.
Unless you want to be going out at midnight on finals week.
Start early. Research the upcoming dates for the different moon phases categories of the project to give yourself a clear timeline for your possible observations.
Having all the data on a hand written board helped me transfer it over to a show quality project. Start as early as possible on this project. Don’t glue or paste anything down to your board until you are satisfied that all of the criteria for the project has been met.
Keeping up to date on this project is very important. You need to make sure you look from the same location every night at the exact same time.
The most important thing is to start early, do not wait until last minute to start the project.
Make sure that you start early and try to start at a time of the year that has the best weather. This will help you be more driven to do your work with your best effort and be passionate about it.
You can’t do this project unless you get it done at least a month in advance. It just won’t happen.
I did it in early April with assistance from a friend of mine and it helped me get some really solid data. If you take numbers on everything you can, you can use them to help fix your drawing later if you need to.
Be really careful with how you set up your initial drawing, and make sure all the data points you need are there. I missed putting down the direction and azimuth angles at first and ended up having to do more work using a protractor and a piece of string. The more care you put into the initial setup means you’ll have a better presentation of the final product anyways, so just do it right the first time.
(getting it done way ahead of time means you can go back out and do it again if you have to!)
Use graphs. Graphs are your friend. They’re easy to look at and understand.
Don’t copy paste the procedure from the project outline if you want a great score.
I do consider all the concepts you’ve presented for your post. They are very convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very brief for newbies. May you please lengthen them a little from next time? Thank you for the post.
I’ve recently started a site, the information you provide on this site has helped me greatly. Thanks for all of your time & work. “Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.” by Alexander Pope.
I like what you guys are up too. Such intelligent work and reporting! Carry on the excellent works guys I’ve incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it’ll improve the value of my web site :).