This activity will involve collecting data at least twice a day for four days. The map chosen for this activity is updated every three hours. The fifth day will involve animating the weather map images and summarizing relationships. The summaries will include why the relationships exist. Close supervision is strongly recommended when students are conducting searches on the Internet.
Inappropriate sites are easy to access either by mistake or on purpose.
Locate places on the Internet using URL's and set bookmarks. Copy and paste information into a ClarisWorks document. Use NIH Image to animate a stack of weather maps. Relationship between weather in front of and behind a front. Relationship between cloud cover and highs and lows.