This year we are doing a science experiment again and this time my question is what is the most accurate way to determine direction. I choose this question because on the website science buddies I found an experiment called Moss is Boss which is about using moss to determine direction so I decided to do my science experiment on what is the most accurate way to do this. Some of the ways I thought of using for my experiment are to use stars, the moon, the sun, moss and a homemade compass. I learnt of different ways of determining direction by reading the Mission Survival books by Bear Grylls which I enjoy.
I found most of my background research from those books but I also did some research. I learnt of many different ways to determine direction such as using the stars, moon, moss, the sun and watch method and the sun and stick method. The sun and watch method is when you use your watch to tell the direction. You would do this by pointing the 12 o'clock point at the sun and halfway between their and the hour hand is North. If you were in the Northern hemisphere it would be the other way around.
My hypothesis is that the most accurate way to determine direction would be to use the shadow tip due to the sun being a natural clock. This means the time and the position of the sun would determine direction, except during midday.
If you were doing this science experiment what would hypothesis be?
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