Introduction
Conditions in the atmosphere are called weather, and
they influence us in so many ways. Our moods, travel plans, sporting events,
ability to grow our own food, hear sounds, and often our very existence depends
on the weather.
You are going to create a weather teaching poster to
share with your class. Your team
will consist of two or three members. Together your team will gather data and
information for your poster. Each team member is responsible for one section of
the poster. Your team will select
two or three of the topics below, one topic per team member.
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Illustrations
of the three basic types of clouds, and a description of each.
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An
interview with a family member or a friend about some experience involving a
weather situation, such as a tornado, hurricane, blizzard, thunder storm,
etc.
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An
informative story about weather folklore.
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A
cartoon strip about the trip that a water drop takes through the water
cycle.
-
A
weather forecast for your city, including temperature, precipitation, cloud
cover, sunrise, sunset, etc.
The Process
·
You will explore and learn about the three types of
clouds by collecting information from web sites and other resources. You will
take notes on the three basic types of clouds and draw an informative picture.
·
You will have an interview with a family
member or friend asking them to recall an experience dealing with a weather
situation. Your interview should be
written in an interview format.
·
You will explore weather folklore and how it
relates to actual weather. You will
collect sayings and information from web sites and will take notes from a
particular area of weather folklore. Ex: “Red sky at night, sailor’s
delight, red sky at morning, sailors take warning.”
·
You will go to the web sites to learn about the water cycle, and
collect information. You will draw
the water cycle in terms of the path a water drop takes, using a cartoon format.
·
You will map a weather forecast for your city,
predicting temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, sunrise, sunset, etc. over a
three-day period of time.
Resources
·
Resources used will be weather sites designated by
the teacher, which will help the learner accomplish their tasks.
·
The resources can be web, non-web, or both.
Students will not necessarily use all resources.
Goal: The
student will know where to go to get information to accomplish the assigned
task.
Sites
Weather
sites for task #1 The three
types of clouds
Resources
for task #2, reporting an experience of a weather situation such as a tornado,
thunderstorm, blizzard, or hurricane, will include interviews with friends and
family members.
Weather
sites for task #3 weather folklore
Weather
sites for task #4 the water
cycle
Weather
sites for task #5 weather forecasts
Evaluation
·
Clear criteria of the grading scale will be
provided. Some examples of past projects will be on display.
·
Determine if the evaluation will be a group
evaluation, an individual evaluation, or both.
·
Alternate assessments that fit the task will
be considered.
Goal:
Students will know in advance how their work will be evaluated.
Following is a point value system that can
be used for group projects such as this:
1.
Research
| Information gathering using web sites, books, magazines,
interviews |
20 points |
| Cooperation and team work of group |
20 points |
| Grammar and spelling on
research projects |
20 points |
| Neatness of artwork, illustrations, cartoons |
20 points |
2.
Presentation of poster
| Shared responsibility while presenting |
10 points |
| Voice and eye contact while presenting |
10 points |
|
Total |
100points |
Conclusion
·
Include a summary of what you will have
accomplished when the WebQuest is complete.
·
Explain how you could do further study on
this topic. This could be in the
form of rhetorical questions to the students.
·
Ask the students to consider what new
questions were generated when trying to solve the original task.
