PBL conference session 3

Session 3
Fredrica Nash
The Weather Report
- Entry Doc: Job advertisement for a team fresh out of meteorology school
- Posted Entry Document around the school so that students were reading the document before the project began – looked like a job application form
- Scaffolding activities
o Choose cities around the world
o Daily collection over 2 weeks
o Prediction of temperatures based on models and predictors for 5 days
o Analyze and evaluate local weather reports
o Workshop – earth’s seasons
o Activitiy atmospheric structure and energy transfer
- Final Product
o Videotaped weather report
 Groups of 2 (anchor and weather person)
 Current weather
 5 day forecast
 Use weather symbols
 “dress for the weather of their city”
o Insert some type of media into the product – commercials
- Mini-lessons on weather symbols, city locations, and other information that the individual class needed
- Can use SMART Notebook to manipulate the weather data for forecast
- Design an online briefcase of materials that the students can access instead of coming to the teacher to ask questions – videos, support documents (how-to’s), audio