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By now you have been collecting and recording weather data and trying your hand at predicting the weather.
How will you communicate this information to your school and community?
Have a brainstorming session with your class and keep these questions in mind:
- How do you usually find out about the weather?
- What kinds of media provide weather information to the public?
- How often is the weather updated and reported in each of the media?
Find examples of how the weather is reported in the different media and bring them to class. Discuss how useful each form of weather reporting is.
Now let's think about how your class will report the weather:
- What media or avenues of communication do you have available at school?
- Are there people in school who can help you learn to use these media?
- What are the important pieces of information you need to communicate to the public?
- How often will you be able to update this information?
- Will this change how you plan to communicate this information?
Keep a record of your ideas in your weather notebook.
Created for the Fermilab LInC program sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Education Office and Friends of Fermilab, and funded by United States Department of Energy, Illinois State Board of Education, North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium which is operated by North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the National Science Foundation.
Author: Karen R. LiVecchi livecchik@aol.com East Moriches UFSD, East Moriches, New York; Edited by Marge Bardeen NTEP II PI.
Webmaster: ed-webmaster@fnal.gov
Created: September 9, 1998 - Updated: December 9, 1998
URL: /ntep/f98/projects/bnl/weather/student9.shtml