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A WEATHER INVESTIGATION A WebQuest for 4th Grade (Science) Designed by Tom Daley and Austin
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Introduction
| Task
| Process
| Evaluation
| Conclusion
| Credits
| Teacher Page
Introduction
You have been specially selected to attend a camp of your
choice! You may choose any camp that
interests you (cheering, sports, outdoors/wildlife, etc.). You will be attending this camp four times
this year, for one week in the months of January, April, July and October in
the beautiful state of
Task
1. Upon completion of your
investigation you will choose two of the months and create a poster which contains the following information
for each month: a.
Average High and Low temperature b. Record High and Low temperature c. Average Precipitation d.
Record Precipitation e. Types
of severe weather possible f.
Hours of daylight for a day in the month g.
Clothes needed for camp 2. From the two chosen
months choose one month and create a drawing, shadow box, 3-D model, painting, or another
creative visual to accompany your presentation. It should depict you performing activities
at camp and the weather for that day.
Process
A. Your group will consist
of three people. B. Over the course of the
project, each person will perform the following duties: a. Navigator:
controls the keyboard and mouse b. Recorder:
records data found c. Reader:
reads information from computer or other sources C. You are to investigate weather
conditions in January, April, July and October. D. You will want to look
for: a. Average high and low temperatures b. Average precipitation c. Record high and low temperatures d. Record precipitation (highs and lows) e. Average hours of daylight (sunrise to
sunset). E. You will also want to
investigate types of clouds, the weather associated with them and severe weather,
which may occur during these months. F. Finally determine the
normal direction in which weather normally moves in the All of this will give you a good idea of what kind of weather to
expect and the types of clothes you will have to take along with you. The following websites will be helpful as
you begin investigating: http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/cloudkey.pdf http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html http://www.wildwildweather.com/clouds.htm http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/Metr304/Exer10dir/classification.html
Evaluation
You will receive one grade. Part of your points will be from your
group work and part will be from your individual work. The criteria you will be graded on are
listed below.
Conclusion
Now that you have completed your webquest
you are aware of many things related to weather. You know what type of weather to expect
throughout the year and how to dress for it.
Here are some questions to extend your thinking of this webquest and keep you thinking about all there is to know
about the weather. With this information are you able to determine if average
temperature is related to hours of daylight?
Can you expect certain weather based on the clouds in the sky? If it is raining in What instruments do we use to track the weather? Why is weather so unpredictable? What other questions do you have now that we have studied weather?
Credits & References
www.eduhound.com (clip
art) www.discovery.com (clip
art) http://webquest.sdsu.edu
(webquest template) We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is hereby
granted for other educators to copy this WebQuest,
update or otherwise modify it, and post it elsewhere provided that the
original author's name is retained along with a link back to the original URL
of this WebQuest. On the line after the original
author's name, you may add Modified by (your name) on (date). If you
do modify it, please let me know and provide the new URL.
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