Is the weather person right? “A look into independent temperature readings in our community"
After discovering “googledocs” a few months ago, I have been looking for effective uses for this technology. I love using the weather and temperature to teach data collection and analysis. Incorporating the wiki-style googledocs into a lesson about data collection, line plots, averages, and forms of measurement fits very nicely into our third grade standards for math and science.
Students will be able to record the daily temperature at a consistent time and submit the information into a Googledoc spreadsheet. After one month of data collection, students will compare their own temperatures at home with that of the community weather forecast.
Students will be able to average the class data and compare with that of the community weather forecast.
Students will make a hypothesis about the accuracy of local weather reports.
Students will compare Google Earth, NOAA, accuweather websites to see which one is more accurate when compared to the collected data of the class.
Students will prepare a line plot of their daily temperatures from home and the class average.
Students will use a classroom only social network (ning.com – thanks Thad!) to discuss their findings, predictions, comparisons, etc.
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