Weather Monitoring: February 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

Nevermind!

I think I would rather do thunder storms if that does not interfere with your movies!

For my movie I am going to focus on snowflakes. I am going to find all kinds of images, since no two snowflakes are alike! I am going to include how they form, what temperature it has to be for them to fall, and they can be dangerous if a lot of snow falls.

Movie ideas

I think I will make my movie on deserts and the weather associated with deserts! I'll post anything if I change my mind

Monday, February 15, 2010

ePals

Weather

lesson plan

For my lesson I will have students research the past weather history at this time of year and make predictions of what they think the weather will be. Then, we can have a meteorologist come in and make his/her own predictions and see how it compares to the students predictions.

Lesson Plan

I think I'm going to do my lesson plan on precipitation. I will be including "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and locating how different areas of the world experience vastly different types of precipitation.

Lesson Plan Ideas

I think I will do my lesson plan on Tornados. Included will be ideas of how tornados form, what areas can be affected by tornados, what time of year tornados are most likely to happen, and I will also include the homemade tornado experiment that I placed on here from before.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Hey sorry guys but I'm a little bit lost after missing Monday on what exactly I should be doing for our assignment due on Friday. Will you guys be attending the open lab at all? If not could one of you just call me or post what I need to do. Sorry, I feel really bad I missed it!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Class 2-8

I've started assignment 3 and hopefully everyone has received my invite to the weather folder/document. If not let me know so I can make sure we all have access.

Google Map

Here's the link to Mt. Washington Elementary School:

View My Saved Places in a larger map

Tornado Experiment

I found some directions on how to create a tornado, like we had talked about. The site I found it on was:

http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/weather.html

Tornado in a Jar

Need: tall plastic jar (pop bottle), 4 to 6 small balls of aluminum foil, clear liquid soap, water, blue food coloring.

Place a teaspoon (5ml) of clear liquid soap in your plastic container. Drop into the jar 3-4 vary small pieces of aluminum foil rolled into balls. The foil should be folded and pressed so that it will sink. Fill the jar to the top with water. Add 1 to 2 drops of blue food coloring.

Rotate the container and a swirling effect should be produced. It may take some practice. Set the container up on the table and watch. The force of the foil at the bottom should keep the water in motion. The action resembles the motion set up as circular rotations of air in the atmosphere form a tornado.

Stranded

Hey guys, I'm stranded in Ann Arbor (locked my keys in my car) and won't be able to make it back to Kalamazoo for our class. If you guys do group work just let me know what I can do to help or whatever I need to do! See you guys next week or in class tonight...