The Weather Forecast.

Introduction

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It is Games Week next week at your school. Your grade is in charge of planning the activities for the week. In order for this week to be successful you and your team is asked to be meteorologists for the week. Lets help to make the week successful.

Task

Your team need to do a presentation before the week of the activities to show that they are meteorologists. Your presentation should include:

PowerPoint/Google slides on what is weather and weather forecast. Who is responsible for the weather forecast the instruments that are used in forecasting the weather. and the symbols used in weather forecast.
You will also need to record and present a report on the weather for the week using Excel/Google sheets.
Make a Podcast of a weather report using wevideo/anchor FM.

Process

Task 1 PowerPoint/ Google Slide

What is weather?
What is a weather forecast?

https://study.com/academy/lesson/weather-forecasting-definition-types.html,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdErsR8_NaU

Who is responsible for the weather forecast and what is his role?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/weather_forecasting.htm

Name and describe the instruments that is used to predict the weather and are they used to collect the information about the weather

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/?page_id=82

Weather Symbols

https://ownyourweather.com/understanding-weather-symbols/,

Task 2 Excel/ Google Sheets

Five days weather report

Task 3 Podcast using Anchor FM

Weather report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lJabgrM5o&t=90s

Evaluation

	Beginning	Developing	Very Good	Score
Content	Students demonstrate little understanding of weather patterns, symbols and instruments	Students demonstrate a fair understanding of weather patterns, symbols and instruments	Students demonstrate a thorough understanding of weather, patterns, symbols and instruments	10
Creativity	Students show little creative skills through each aspect of the web quest assignment	Students show a fair amount of creative skills through each aspect of the web quest assignment	Students show excellent creative skills through each aspect of the web quest assignment	6
Grammar/oral presentation	Students exhibit poor oral presentation skills and more than ten grammatical errors	Students exhibit an average oral presentation skills and less than ten grammatical errors	Students possesses excellent oral presentation skills with no little or no grammatical error	4
Use of technology	Students utilized little or no technological programs	Students utilized a fair amount of technological programs	Students utilized technological programs above the expected level.	5

Total Score 25

Conclusion

Now that you have completed this WebQuest. Can you tell how well you know about the weather and the process of getting a weather forecast out the the public so that they can make their decision on the activities they can plan for each day.

Did you enjoyed doing this WebQuest?

Tell the areas of this quest that you enjoyed doing and the areas you had a challenge with.