Work as a Meteorologist. Must be finished by the end of class. No exceptions, no excuses.

In this activity, you will be a meteorologist for a day. You will gather weather data for any city in the United States and then present a weather report to the class based on that data.

Step 1

Gather data for a weather report

On the Internet Explorer, go to this site: http://www.weather.com/.

In the Local Forecast search area, type in the name of the city you are researching.

Gather data for your weather report. Be sure to include:

·  Current conditions

·  Temperature

·  Humidity

·  Wind

·  Precipitation

·  Current Doppler image

·  5-day forecast

·  For the last part of your forecast, include a paragraph on how you think the weather will affect people in this city. Is there anything in the forecast that might affect people's daily routines? Remember, this is a paragraph. Use several sentences and complete sentences.

Step 2

Create and present your weather report

Open the Office PowerPoint Weather forecast template by clicking on the following link. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/8/d78cc600-8ff5-431e-a1a0-11a4238b548d/weatherforcast.ppt). Use this template to enter all the data you collected and create your weather forecast. Save as Weather Forecast. Be prepared to present your report to the class.

Please review the rubric below to ensure you have the best presentation possible.

Multimedia Project : Work as a Meteorologist
Teacher Name: Ms. McGhee
Student Name: ______
CATEGORY / 90-100 / 80-90 / 70-80
Presentation / Well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention. / Rehearsed with fairly smooth delivery that holds audience attention most of the time. / Delivery not smooth, but able to maintain interest of the audience most of the time. / Delivery not smooth and audience attention often lost.
Attractiveness / Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. / Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation. / Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content. / Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentation content.
Mechanics / No misspellings or grammatical errors. / Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors. / Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. / More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar.
Content / Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent. / Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good. / Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors. / Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors.
Date Created: Apr 28, 2011 05:33 pm (UTC)