The Website contains a statement of objectives for each lesson, focus questions, and step by step instructions for carrying out each activity, as well as teaching tips, and rubrics for assessments. For example, upon choosing a research question, How land and water affect climate, students collect baseline climate data for cities in the United States using Mininets as resources for their investigations. Students then create graphs using distance from large bodies of water as the independent variable and January and July mean annual temperatures and precipitation as the dependent variables, and construct a map of an analyzed area to represent the differences in climate. Students are also encouraged to create a multimedia presentation to illustrate the results of their investigation. Links to the Webwhacker homepage and the Internet Sites Reference List, featuring sites useful for supporting meteorological studies, are also included.
Internet access requires browsing software and an Internet service provider.
Students will need access to computers for mininet research and for creating multimedia presentations to publish their research findings.