Thank you so much for taking your time out of your busy schedule to come teach us about the Sunwheel. I was very interested in the things you taught us. I was especially interested in how the North Star will not be exactly north in 26,000 years and how you told us where the direct sun light will be at what time of year. I look forward to seeing the lunar eclipse next month!

I have a few questions for you. Is the North Star called Polaris for a reason? If so, who named it? Are any other moons opposite the sun besides ours? Thanks!

I tremendously enjoyed my time at the Sunwheel and learning many exciting facts about the sun, the moon and telling time of the year. I greatly appreciated you taking time from your day and coming down to the Sunwheel to teach us. When I first stepped into the Sunwheel, I had no idea if it would just look like a sun dial and if we would just be looking at it. What we did at the Sunwheel was ten thousands times better. Thank you very much for your time and sharing your knowledge with us. I will come back with my friend and family.

While we were at the Sunwheel, I learned a great deal, such as equinox is equal sunup and sundown. The northern star has a name and is located 42 degree up in the sky. Tropic of Capricorn is located -23.5 degrees below the equator, and Tropic of Cancer is located 23.5 degrees above the equator.

That the longest day is June 21 with about 16 hours of daylight and the shortest day is December 21 with 8 hours. Also that everywhere in the earth would get the same amount of sun light [averaged over the year] if there were no mountains or tall buildings. I have no questions since you did such a wonderful job tell us about the Sunwheel. Thank you once again for your time and knowledge. I truly appreciated it.

Thanks for doing the Sunwheel presentation! I've been to the Sunwheel before, but I learned some more things that I didn't know, especially about the stars. It was really interesting that Earth's axis will wobble every 26,000 years and the brightest star in Draco will be the North Star. I didn't know that the sun and moon are half a degree across. Also, I learned why there isn't a lunar eclipse every full moon, that the day and night are always equal on the equator, that the time stars are up is also equal on the equator, and many other things.

I was wondering something about the North Star changing. If the North Star will be different in 5,000 years, will there be a South Star?

I very much liked the time my class had at the Sunwheel. I learned some cool info about the sun and the moon. I learned that a Sunwheel does not tell time like a sun dial. I also learned that North Star goes through a twenty six thousand year cycle. I learned that the Tropic of Capricorn is 23.5 degrees south of the Equator and that the Tropic of Cancer is 23.5 degrees north of the equator. Those are four things I learned at the Sunwheel.

These are some questions I have for you: How did the Sunwheel come to be? Where was the first Sunwheel formed? When was the first Sunwheel made? Who made the first Sunwheel? Why did they make the Sunwheel? Thanks again for having us at the Sunwheel.

Thank you so much for letting us come to the Sunwheel today. It was a wonderful experience. I very much enjoyed your presentation and I learned so much from you talking and so much about the rocks themselves. I wish that this trip to the Sunwheel was longer so that we would have been able to go deeper in the details. It was very interesting and I hope I can come again.

I didn't know that the winter solstice is December 21, the sun rises directly east on March 21, and that the summer solstice is June 21.

The North Star is also called Polaris. I knew about Polaris but not about Thuban being 42 degrees above the north horizon in Amherst 5000 years ago. I had no idea about that. Also about the topic I had no idea about the 26,000 year period [of precession].

I still have a few questions for you; why is it every year the sun rises in the same exact places? How did you come up with the idea to make the Sunwheel on campus? Did you always intend to do presentations there? How is all the information you have just from looking at the wheel found?

Thank you for the time that you spent on teaching our class about the Sunwheel and our Solar System. I enjoyed the learning experience and also the humor in Jar Jar Binx. I know that the time that we had with you was short, and I wish that it could have been longer. However, I do not think that I could have possibly learned more, for example, I learned the true meaning of Equinox, and that there are certain places in which you must stand in order not to have a shadow at solar noon.

There is not possibly enough room on this page for me to describe the amount of learning which took place for me, however, I still have one final question; will the tropics and the Equator always be correct, considering the Earth's cycle of its changing axis, or will they have to be realigned? Thanks again for your time, and also for sharing your knowledge with our class.

Thank you very much for teaching us about the Sunwheel on Tuesday. I learned about many different things, that I can use over the course of the school year. I learned about the degrees to and from the Equator, about the certain lines of latitude like the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Phases of the moon, and much more. You taught us about the Phases of the moon by putting the size and length in perspective for me which really helped a lot. By putting the North Star and the Equator in relation to each other also helped me understand the relationship better. I also liked how you put the months and seasons with the birthdays at the end of the lesson.

I liked your lesson a lot, but I also had some questions. One of the questions I had was -- if the seasons are close to equal, and the summer solstice and the winter solstice fall on the Tropics, why aren't the Tropics directly in between the Equator and the Poles at 45 degrees instead of 23.5 degrees?