Concept Applications and Extensions - Students use the skills learned in activities one through four to conduct their own investigations. Create your own weather maps using the JAVA Weather Machine . Students in other classrooms can see weather elsewhere. Using Internet resources, storm systems can be tracked as they move from west to east. Children can make predictions about weather changes for other schools.
Students can keep weather journals.
This can be in the form of a written journal, an electronic portfolio, or with a program such as Kid Pix . Using CU-SeeMe , students plan and deliver weather forecasts based on the data they collect. Students create flip charts that show how clouds look as they change into storms. This could be done by actually drawing the pictures on different cards or by using computer software like NIH Image , Powerpoint, Hypercard or Hyperstudio. Now I know what to wear tomorrow.