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1. Acquire daily WEATHER IMAGES from the Internet from various sites
2. Identify a variety of WEATHER FEATURES such as HURRICANES and STORMS.
3. Using acquired data to keep track of DYNAMIC WEATHER PROCESSES at school and across the Earth's surface.
4. Identify HURRICANES before they are officially declared.
5. Learn NEW WEATHER VOCABULARY WORDS.
6. Carry out WEATHER RELATED EXPERIMENTS in the laboratory.
7. Interact with WEATHER SCIENTISTS
8. Do ON-LINE LABS using various types of data and data analysis techniques, to learn about the weather as it happens.
9. Give TALKS to other students about the weather
10. Make WEATHER DISPLAYS for your school.
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Have RESEARCH GROUP SEMINARS to discuss your discoveries.
This is a great opportunity to
get kids into data collection and analysis. First, collecting just day
to day temperature, pressure and cloud cover data in a table is easy. Kids
will love to read the barometric pressure gauge. Once several days of data
are collected, patterns start to emerge and the temptation to forecast
based on past patterns becomes strong. Encourage that feeling .
If you can get your kids
to contact other schools in or out of your area, do so. Small differences
due to elevation differences, proximity to mountains or coast-lines can
influence the weather. If your kids can talk to other weather observers
on the other side of the mountains, they can actually see the differences
on a daily basis. You can start your kids down the road to seeing climatic
differences due to terrain. Also merging data can allow them to watch weather
patterns move across the landscape when a big weather system moves through.
Get data from various
sources, T.V., the Net, the government weather offices or people you call
up. Put the data onto maps. Do a new map every other day and compare maps.
See how your data fits into the ' big picture '. Only after doing this
a while can you see patterns. Also the larger your data base, the better
your understanding. The rewards of long term data gathering are apparent
after you have worked with the data. Remember, this is how the real scientists
do their work.
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