This learning project offers students many fun experiences that can be used as a form of alternative evaluation. Students can set up weather information desks and offer weather information services to other classes. Students can visit the weather station. Students can invite local weatherperson to visit the class and share data files and graphs. Students can write the National Weather Service for specific information.
Teams can use weather sites to select cities from all over the world.
Locate cities on map. Record specific weather conditions. Compare weather conditions. It can involve a single class, a number of grades or the entire school. Students can research careers in the weather services, select a particular career, and research its history, the skills, education and experience required and the availability of work in that field.