Using data from Hurricane Ike students plot charts to understand the relationship of low pressue to storm severity
Ground Level Ozone
Objectives: differentiate between the good and bad ozone, locate the position in the atmosphere where the good and bad ozone reside, plot monthly ozone data and understand the ground level ozone effects on humans and plants.
White Plains MetARs
Students examine a 'one week' MetAR to find trends in temperature and pressure over the course of one week in October.
Hurricane Ivan
Students examine, interpret, and map several days of NOAA hurricane advisories.
Calorimeter Conduction
Standard Conduction Lab using the Styrofoam cups and the aluminum bar.
Weather Wizardry Of WESR
This project has the students pretend to be television meteorologists as they develop and present their own 2-day weekend weather forecasts to the class. You can use any oral presentation rubric to grade the presentation itself.
Weather Patterns Analysis Lab
This lab was designed for students to use the Internet to gather and graph meteorological data using Microsoft Excel. It utilizes data posted to the net by our school's weather station and by the National Weather Service.
Determining Cloudbase
Find the base of clouds using the dewpoint and dry bulb temperatures.
Dewpoint And Relative Humidity By
Find Dewpoint and Relative Humidity using a psychrometer in the classroom.
Absorption & Radiation By Land & Water
To describe the comparative rates at which water and land surfaces heat and cool.