Weather and Education
Weather knowledge serves more than our basic comfort and convenience. Many weather situations are life threatening and endangering, and most have numerous economic consequences. Weather therefore has high daily relevance to our students. This is of special importance to educators who have responsibility to make bridges between students' personal interests and numerous content areas. Weather and science are deeply intertwined. Further, the science of weather is relevant to major goals of science curriculum at every grade level and every science subject in high school. This Web page provides a menu of Internet resources for the purpose of convenience, safety, teaching and curriculum building.
Given the need for timeliness or up-to-the-minute reporting, the Internet is emerging as the premier medium for the communication of weather information, superceding even radio and television. This information includes far more than documentary text, now encompassing digitized images, radio broadcasts, electronic conferences, satellite photos, television broadcasts and eventually electronic forms for the rapid entry of weather event reporting and systems of people to analyze this information. The Internet is the lowest-cost leader in the distribution of an avalanche such information. Do you have curriculum development ideas on how to take advantage of this?
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Easy to Use Weather Webs
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Other North Carolina Cities and Regions
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National and International Forecasts
International Forecasts Also
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Basic Weather Information Questions
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Other Categories of Weather/Atmosphere/Ocean Related Information
- These Other Categories include: Natural Disasters; Allergy Counts; Fall foliage; Selected Local Forecasts (by major metropolitan areas); University Sites; Government Sites; Oceanic Conditions; Projects/Research; Remote Sensors and Remote Observation sites.
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Unit and Lesson Plans Keyed to Grade Levels
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Email Conferences on a Variety of Topics
LISTSERVs
- WX-Talk
- As the only line in your email message to listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu, enter subscribe wx-talk Your Name.
- CALMET (Computer-Aided Learning in Meteorology)
- As the only line in your email message to calmet-request@ed.ac.uk, enter Request to be added to the list.
- WXOBS-SNE Digest
- The Southern/Central New England Amateur Weather Observer List. As the only line in your email message to wxobs-sne-digest-request@shore.net, enter subscribe
- WXOBS-MDA
- The Mid-Atlantic Weather Information. As the only line in your email message to majordomo@shore.net, enter subscribe WXOBS-MDA
Newsgroups
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Publish Your Own Localized Weather Reports
- As you develop your knowledge of weather systems, develop your own forecasts for your neighborhood and community. Record the weather history of your immediate area. Use desktop publishing tools to create newsletters. Then create Web pages on a local Internet or Web server with your information and announce the presence of this information in the electronic mail conferences covering weather information.
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Webmaster: Houghton@wcuvax1.wcu.edu