Small Group Web Project

Got to page 265 and choose one of the web projects. In your blog -- creat a post that briefly describes the project. Give examples of how you think the project could be used in a classroom. What grade levels and what subject area?

In the weather scope project, students are required to look and record local and world weather. Students learn how about different weather instruments and how to find weather on the internet. Students will be given a scenario to form there own forecasts and climate about there scenario. Students will also track weather. There are 5 activites that the students must complete. The first activity is to make a weather station. There weather station will consist of using weather instruments and recording the data they recieve from the instruments. The second part of the first activity is to makea class weather station. The second activity is to make a weather log. The information for the log will come from the student's weather stations, their local weather from the internet and from there a city in AK. The log will contain temperatures, sky conditions, wind and precipitation. The third activity is to track weather for a period of 2 weeks based on the classroom weather instruments and the interet. The fourth activity is to understand how weather changes by analzying data. The fifth activity is predict the weather for your area based on your weather data.
This project could be used in the classroom in many different ways. It can be used for both science and math, since you have to interpet data, make graphs and understand how to read weather instruments. The project can also be done as a class, small groups or an individual. This project can show how weather is recorded and how weather is forecasted. It will also give students a new outlook on the weather and how it is caused. The grade levels for this project would be 6th grade through 12th. At the 6th grade level students have developed the skills for this project and would be successful. This project could be done in either science or math since you need both of those skills to complete the project successfully.