Students look at the data samples and discuss what they see. Write student observations on the board or chart paper. Have students keep track of their observations and ideas in their folders or journals. Using their observations, have students generate other questions from their observations. This can lead to a discussion of the sources of pollution in Fairbanks.
Students do a fast write of what they have learned.
Display temperature data, wind speed and direction, gray scale and other measurements in student created tables. Students graph the temperatures vs. the gray scale measurements, etc. Students make data table with information collected from the air pollution experiment. Expert talks about the local monitoring program. He describes inversions and talks about pollutants and how they are monitored.