Classroom+Weather+Project+Instructions

Collaborative and real-time data projects engage students in collecting, analyzing, and sharing data from web-based databases; as well as allow communication with other students around the world. These kinds of projects are highly motivating to students because they bring classrooms together from across the globe in shared learning experiences.

This wiki is a place where elementary school teachers and students from around the world can share their weather information. From this wiki, the students will be able to learn about the different types of weather and compare weather patterns, temperatures, and precipitation.


 * This will be a year long project! **


 * __ Start Date: __ October 1, 2013 (When you will begin recording weather data. You will post monthly weather data on the last day of every month on your wiki page. You only need to keep track of the weather data on the days school is in session). **


 * __End Date:__ May 30, 2014 **

An example page titled "Project Example" was created to help you get an idea of what your completed project page should include.

*There is no limit on the amount of information and pictures you want to include on your page.
1. Register for the project on the registration page. You will receive an email from wikispaces inviting you to join the Classroom Weather Data wiki page. 2. Create a new wiki page on the Classroom Weather Data wiki page. Title the page with your location (city and state or country). For example, we are from New York City, so our page will be titled New York, New York. 3. On October 1st, begin tracking the weekly weather with your students. Record the daily temperature and and how many days were sunny/cloudy/rainy/snowy, etc. At the end of every month you will post on your wiki page the weather data for the month (Highest temperature, lowest temperature, amount of sunny/rainy/cloudy/snowy days). It is really up to you on how you record your weather data. We are using a graph we created using SMART Notebook to keep track of the daily weather. At the end of the month, we will take a photo of the chart to post on our wiki page. 4. Take photos of weather (no photos of students, just weather) to post on page. 5. On the last day of every month, post your monthly weather data and weather photos on your wiki page.