Tucson High Magnet School

• Presenters: Julia Van Valkenburg, Kalyn Scanlan, Negin Nematollahi, Corrie Ash

• 124 9th grade students in Conceptual Physics

Methods• Answer study guide

questions about Tucson• Answer study guide

questions about La Serena

• Pick targets in La Serena

• Photograph targets in Tucson

Challenges

• Dealing with false color

• Distinguishing objects of similar size

• Unfamiliarity with layout of Chilean cities

• Counting pixels

• Locating the targets using the coordinates

• Determining elevation

• Dealing with green color as representation of the desert in La Serena

What We Learned• How to locate objects using coordinates• That looks can be deceiving (false color)• There is more water in La Serena than

Tucson• Parts of Chile are desert• The driest desert in the world is in Northern

Chile• La Serena is a more dispersed city than

Tucson