final

Hi, I put the last final touches on the website last mon. everything looks good, see you tommorrow!

Project

Hey girls, I just looked at our website and I think it looks really good! Is there anything else that needs to be done? Sorry I dont know how to put the podcast up...I was probably having difficulties at the time haha. Just let me know if there is anything I can do to help you guys out. I think all my pages are ready to go...but let me know if you don't think so just let me know!

HI!

Hey guyss : ) I just wanted to let you know that I finished putting everything up except for a few things I still need to add on our project based learning page. Just keeping everyone updated

final

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I have been working on our final project, the only thing that I haven't put up yet is the podcast, not sure how to do it? I can do it Mon. though. If you have any questions, let me know. Have a good weekend, see you Mon.

Final Inspiration

Hi, here's our final inspiration. See you Mon.

I FINALLY finished my three pages. I just need to link my pictures and lesson plans. Do we have time on monday?

Website

Hey, I just want to let you know that I have placed pictures on the websites and I also am beginning to work on my new Power Point about thunderstorms. If you have any questions let me know.

Hi, I will be working on what info I can include for our final presentation. I think we should be good since we will have the next two mondays to put all our info into it. See you Mon.

Final

Hi, Monday @ 2 or 3pm. works for me, my finals are on Tues. & Thurs. so that will be good to get it this one done with on Mon. Sorry I wasn't there on Monday I had to take my grandmother in law to the hospital. I will see you this coming up week. Could one of you let me know what you guys did? I know that you talked about the final, but didn't know what details you talked about? I would really appreciate it! Hope you have a nice easter :-)

Hey! here is our g-mail account for our webpage=

username= weathermonitoring2010@gmail.com

password= weather123

Project Presentation

Hey Tina! We had to pick our time today that we want to present our final project during exam week. We decided we might as well do it Monday to get it out of the way if that is ok with you. We requested anytime around 2, to 3. Let us know if this does not work out with your exam schedule.

Finals

Hey, today we started working on our final project and I think that this is gonna be really great and will be the perfect wrap up to our weather monitoring section. I already started thinking of website names such as, The Wacky Weather Wizards. and Weather Is Us. : ) Let me know if you guys come up with any more ideas about the project in general.

weather

Hi, yeah I think it would be great to add a brochure or something like that; if we have room to fit it in. If I get time soon I am going to do the last concept map on inspiration, so then that's out of the way. If there is anything you guys want to add to it just let me know or else I will add what I have. See you Mon.

Hey guys, I was thinking we should add a postcard and a brochure somewhere into our project. This would be a good way to cater to students who are artistically talented. This would also be a good way for them to create a culture and lifestyle of the people who live in their city!

Pod Cast

Hello, I just wanted to remind everyone that I will be introducing project based learning as a whole on my time allotted for this podcast, and I will do so only briefly while going over what I have learned and accomplished so far in the class. Thanks, and I hope you all had a great weekend!

Re. Excel projects

Hi just read your blogs and looks like you guys are doing the same thing? (temp.) Just a heads up!

Excel project

As you already know my lesson is going to be on graphing on which days are sunny, rainy, snowing, etc. but instead of just having them do it based on the weather where they live, I am instead having them do it on each a different state or city to mix it up a little instead of having them all tracking the same exact weather. Also, having them keep track of this in a journal over a months period of time. Have a great weekend! Two more lectures to go!

Excel Project

Hey girls! I just wanted to let you know I changed my lesson plan for this project. Instead of the season survey I am doing a graph of the average yearly temperature in different cities around the world. this way they will have some sort of idea where they want their imaginary city to be for their project!

Lesson Plan

Hello group, I wanted to let you know that I have decided on a lesson plan for this week and I wanted to let you all know that I will be doing a lesson plan on having the students record the temperature rise and fall throughout the day, and at the end they will ultimately show this information on a graph, that will show the rise and fall of the temperature.

Excel Assignment

For my excel assigment I am going to do the class's favorite seasons. I am going to ask two classes for data (Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall, or No preferance). We can later use this to see if this affects the groups "imaginary cities" for their project.

Re. Lesson plan 2

Hi, For lesson plan 2 I am going to do my on data collection on weather including how many days it is sunny, cloudy, etc. We just need to know who's lesson will fall first out the three of ours. Because the person who's lesson plan will be first will have to include "teaching excel to the students and the other two will just review the use of it.
Thanks, see you next week!

Concept Map 2

here is our updated concept map! I couldn't get our original one so some of the pictures are different. Let me know what you think!

Spring Break

Hey everyone, I just got back from vacation and did not have access to the Internet, so I apologize first off for that. Secondly, I wanted to bring up that I have decided to do my movie on Tornado's and their details. If anyone has questions about this or concerns, please let me know.

weather monitoring 1

Hi group!
Did anyone get feedback on their lesson plans yet? Did it show up when you opened up your lesson plan on taskstream, because I don't see anything on mine. I thought that it would show up right on it? I am still contemplating on doing clouds for my movie maker looking at other options, but haven't found anything that interesting to put into a slide show.

Hey girls! I just wanted to let you know that I am doing my windows movie maker assignment on the water cycle. I am using a cartoon water droplet named Waldo and he will be going on a trip to end up in a different body of water. Let me know if you have any good ideas...good luck with your project!

Hi!

Hope your week went well! My lesson plan was on clouds which included the class splitting up into groups and working on researching a particular cloud that was assigned to them. Researching, creating a visual aide and presenting. In a nut shell. I've been looking for topics and branch offs for our inspiration map also, which is due on the 12th. If you have any questions or anything else, let me know! Have a nice weekend.

Hey girls! I just finished my lesson plan. I did the reason for seasons. I explained that by this point in the unit our class has started to work on their city project and has just picked a location and climate type. My lesson helps them understand the season's that their particular climate has. At the end they use a globe and a flashlight to demonstrate their reasoning to the class. This is also the opportunity to tell the class where their city is located.

let me know if you have any questions!

Reminder

Hey guys, just a reminder that my lesson will be focusing mainly on starting the students on their daily weather journals along with having them choose and research a city/state, of interest to them and present a power point on the current weather occurring there! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns let me know. : )

weather monitoring 1 2-10-10

Hi, this is geared towards katie's quest. I think that it would be good to include the Koppenhagen types and expecially the seasons. I also think it's important to do something on the heat index and wind chill, they could graph it daily to see how it changes, the wind chill has an impact on them because in the winter it determines if they get to go outside for recess or not. Along with those I think it might be good to do something on daily recording's on snowfall and rainfall, just a thought. I was also thinking that we should include storms to our concept map; what kinds, how they form, types of weather alerts, etc. I know our revision of our concept map is due I think something like March 12, I can do the next one, if that's ok.

I think our concept map looks really good. Under climate maybe we should have koppenhagen types and seasons. do you think that heat index and wind chill should be in our daily checks? or is that too advanced for our age group.

For our google doc assignment and google map assignment from today I had an idea on what the map could be used for. Looking at where the weather stations are, the students could see how where the weather stations are located affects the different readings. This could tie into lake effect snow for example.

Google Doc Assignment

        Our class will be communicating a daily weather report through e-pals discussing to a fourth grade class in Florida.  Our students would contact these students as we learn about the different climate types.  Along with a description of that days "daily readings" they can discuss why the weather is different.  These daily readings should include temperature, precipitation,dew point, humidity, and wind speed.  The students can also discuss how the weather affects the activities they do after school and on the weekends.  After communicating with the other students, our class could make a log of the weather in Florida according to their pen pal.  After recording the information the students could  write a short story that is set in Florida.  They would include the weather and how it affects the lifestyle of the people there and how it is different than our weather here. The students will also be able to better understand why the weather is the way it is, even though it may be winter in Florida, and know the differences between Michigan and Florida winters, and the reasons behind them.

Weather Stations in Michigan

View Weather Station Mich2 in a larger map

Weather Websites

Hey group! here are my websites that I found today in class if you want to check them out.

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/

http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/cldchart.html

http://squ1.org/files/wiki/climate/koeppen-map-large.gif

I think the first one is the best. It has a lot of great pictures and hands on activities as well. the cloud one has a lot of good pictures too. I thought maybe they could use this sight to see what kinds of clouds were in the sky on a particular day and see how they relate to the current and upcoming weather.

Concept Map

This is what we have been working on as far as brainstorming goes! I feel as though we are on a great track, and now am going to be focusing on some main points that will better help us to research websites. I think that finding easy, simply websites having to do with some of the basic points we brainstormed about so far will be helpful.

Weather Monitoring

Hi, fellow weather monitoring team!!! YIKES

Hey group!

Woo hoo weather:-)

First Post

This is my first post on my new blog : ) and it is really cool.