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A WebQuest for grades 2-4 |
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Sarah Retherford
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| Blizzards | Lightning | Tornadoes |
Your local meteorologist has just forecasted a front approaching from the
West. What can you expect as this mass starts to move across the
Midwest? What can you do to prepare yourself before the storm passes
through? It is important to be "weather wise" at all times.
Please continue reading.
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 You
will investigate one of the storms pictured above.
1. First scroll down and continue reading each of these sections. 2. Next return to the beginning and click on the storm you wish to investigate. 3. Then follow the directions given for the storm you chose. 4. Finally return to the main page and choose a final project.
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 In
the storybook called It Looks Like Spilt Milk, the shape of each
cloud looks like something else. Click on cloud
puzzle to play a picture game with clouds.
How "weather wise" are you? This short quiz is a lot of fun. Click the quiz. Click weather jokes if you would like to read poems written by other kids. Clickweather
stories if you would like to read stories
written by other kids.
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Design a safety poster.
2. Prepare an emergency kit. 3. Write a recipe for a storm using as many weather
words as possible.
Scoring Rubric Very good.
The material was organized in a neat and
complete manner. It shows
Satisfactory. The
student presented basic information with some description but
Needs
The project lacks a plan. There is
little proof of understanding.
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A special thank you to the webmasters who created the sites to
which this page is linked.
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