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Oregonians,
Compare Our Weather
to Other Sites Around the
World!
By Carolyn Gardner, Linn-Benton Community
College
Skillbuilding:
- Using the
Internet
- Learning about
Internet reference sources
- Recording
data
- Following
directions
- Developing a
global conception
Objectives:
Given activities and resources, the learner
will be able to:
- find and record
weather data
- convert
time
- locate cities
in the world with similar weather to that of
Oregon
- convert
temperatures from Fahrenheit to
Celsius.
- do mathematical
calculations with internet data and to record it
accurately.
This is designed to be an independent activity,
but students need to pay careful attention to
detail.The weather comparisons will vary
according to the cities chosen and the time of
the year. Students need to use a variety of
Internet or classroom tools and to do some
mathematical calculations in order to record the
data.
Description of
Activity:
The results of this
research will vary according to the sites chosen.
Students will locate the weather for their own
city, find the latitude and then search for cities
elsewhere in the world at the same latitude. They
should be encouraged to find cities in both
hemispheres. Web sites for reference tools have
been given so that students can look up the
information necessary to define latitude and to
locate the cities. If the download of maps is too
slow, the student may choose to use a classroom
globe, atlas, or a CD-Rom atlas.
The weather reports
that we are using give EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
and Fahrenheit temperatures. To create a better
global understanding and to make the data more
meaningful, students are asked to convert the times
the temperatures are given to the local time.
Another reference tool has been given. Students may
need some help in learning how to convert time by
using the time zone map. Since temperatures in
other parts of the world are often given in
Celsius, students are asked to convert the
temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
At the beginning of
this activity, the student should print out the
worksheet to record answers during the
activity.
Resources:
Weather site:
http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/intlweat/index.html
Time zone map:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/world_tzones.html
Merriam-Webster
dictionary online:
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
Map of Oregon
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/usstates/soregom.html
World Atlas:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/index.html
http://cliffie.nosc.mil/~NATLAS/index.html
Fahrenheit to
Celsius conversion:
http://www.athena.ivv.nasa.gov/curric/weather/fahrcels.html
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