Research
Severe Weather Patterns Unit

Lesson Five
Presentation to Class and School

  • Brief Description
  • Objectives
  • Materials and Resources
  • Activity Description
  • Internet Resources

  • Brief Description

        Following the previous lessons, a special severe weather awareness day is planned where students present their research reports, along with their action plan and any other associated products (models, Web-pages, etc.) to the rest of the class/school. Up to Contents

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    Objectives

        Students will:

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    Materials and Resources

        In developing our lessons and activities, we made some assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for teachers who visit the LETSNet Website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based lessons or activities have a computer (PC or Macintosh) with the necessary hardware components (mouse, keyboard, and monitor) as well as software (operating system, TCP/IP software, networking or dial-up software, e-mail and a World Wide Web client program, preferably Netscape, but perhaps Mosaic or Lynx). In the section below, we specify any "special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity (in addition to those described above) and the level of Internet access required to do the activity.

    1. Special hardware requirements: none.
    2. Special software requirements: none.
    3. Internet access: none.
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    Activity Description

        Coordinate a severe weather pattern awareness day for the class and/or school, including the principal and others members of the community.

    As an alternative, if an Internet connection is available along with Web space for members of the class in a group setting (e.g., computer lab), consider publishing the students' severe weather pattern reports on the World Wide Web. Coordinate with your Internet service provider - or your local Web server personnel if appropriate - on setting up the space and providing links from the home page to the students' reports.

    Prepare flyers for students to take home and encourage parents to attend the student presentations.

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    Internet Resources

    For those who are interested in publishing their work on the Web, there are a variety of useful resources available to help along these lines. The following sites are places you can go to learn about making HTML documents.

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