WebQuest

The Weather Hunt

A WebQuest for 4th Grade (Language Arts)

Alyssa Pryor(apryor3@kent.edu)

Vanessa Opoku(vopoku@kent.edu)

Sarah Merhaut(smerhaut@kent.edu)

Kelly Will(kwill1@kent.edu)

Introduction

Every day we experience different weather conditions. Weather determines whether we stay inside and read books or go outside and play with our friends.

It is your job as this week’s weather person to educate your fellow classmates about what their daily forecast will be.

This webquest will help you to learn about the different vocabulary you must know in order to be the best weather person you can be!

The Task

It’s Student Meteorologist Awareness Week and the local weather man is looking for student helpers to help him broadcast the weather. Before you help him, you have to learn the terms that real weather man use. In teams of five you will learn the necessary vocabulary words needed to report the weather on TV. Website links are included for you to define the vocabulary necessary to be a weather person. A PowerPoint presentation has been made for you to quiz your knowledge after you become experts.

Once you have the vocabulary learned (humid, cold front, warm front, gale, precipitation, dew point), you will present the daily weather to your classmates and your teacher will videotape your presentation.

The Process

1.) Get into groups of five to form your weather team.

2.) Click on the links to the websites.

3.) Use the clues given to figure out what each term means.

4.) Take vocabulary quiz with the PowerPoint.

5.) Once you’ve passed the quiz, prepare your weather report with your classmates.

6.) Assign a term to each of the five people in your group that he or she is able to explain.

7.) Your presentation will need to be 4-5 minutes in length.

8.) At the end of the week the class will view each presentation

Vocabulary Resources:

Humid Cold Front Warm Front

Dew point Precipitation Gale

Evaluation

	Needs Work 1	Average 2	Excellent 3	Score
Presentation	Information is not accurate and hard to understand. Presentation does not look practiced.	Pretty good understanding of material but is lacking some information.	Information is very clear and easy to understand. Presentation looks practiced.
Knowledge of Terms	Score on quiz is either a 0 or a 1	Score on quiz is either a 2 or a 3.	Score on quiz is either a 4 or a 5.
Team Work	Little cooperation and participation from each member.	Presented well individually but as a group it was unorganized.	Students in group cooperated and completed the work.
Time Management	Project is incomplete.	Students were on task only half of the time.	Completed the work and stayed on task in the time they were given.

Conclusion

You have spent the week learning about different types of weather and the common vocabulary used by weather men and women. With increasing vocabulary you become more informed citizens. Your videos will help your classmates understand different weather vocabulary as well. Great Job!

To find out more about weather terms and conditions go to www.ILLINIWEATHER.com

Credits & References

http://www.wildwildweather.com/humidity.htm

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gl)/guides/mtr/af/frnts/cfrnt/def.rxml

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/af/frnts/wfrnt/def.rxml

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/ga/gale167890.html

http://www.wildwildweather.com/precipitation.htm

http://www.unc.edu/depts/cmse/nature/dewpoint.html

http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3&TopicRelationID=1391&ContentID=1629&Content=39085

www.ILLINIWEATHER.COM

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