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Turn Your Classroom Into a Live Weather Lab

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 109AB

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Presenters

Jared Hottenstein

5th grade teacher

Jamison Elementary School

For the last twenty-three years, Jared's office has been a fifth-grade classroom. He’s developed interactive science, technology, environmental, STEM, and project based learning initiatives that effectively network other elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, trade schools, and colleges together and resulted in his winning Bucks County Teacher of the Year, The National Liberty Museum’s Teacher as Hero Award, Bowman’s Hill Land Ethics award, and Bucks County Conservation District Individual Educator of the Year. In 2015, Jared joined Temple University’s College of Science and Technology as a classroom support specialist to develop content for their science-themed Youtube channel, FunScienceDemos.

Session description

Learn how to turn your classroom into a live weather lab with an Ambient Weather Station. Students can gain firsthand experience with real weather data collection, analysis and forecasting. Classrooms can also track and compare national weather conditions in real time using the Ambient Weather Network.

Purpose & objective

-Participants will be able to set up a classroom or community weather station and understand the science behind that weather station through a series of hands-on weather demonstrations focusing on temperature and air pressure.

-Participants will learn how to use ambientweather.net to navigate and analyze live weather data across the country.

-Participants will learn how to use green screen technology to create weather forecasts.

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Outline

-Using a weather station to collect and analyze live and local weather data and compare that data to other locations across the country (10 minutes-device based activity)

-series of hands-on temperature and air pressure demonstrations to investigate and understand weather data (10 minutes- peer-to-peer interaction)

-create a video weather forecast (5 minutes: device-based activity)

-Blooket weather station assessment (5 minutes: device-based activity)

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Supporting research

- https://www.teacherswithapps.com/teaching-weather/
- https://weatherstationary.com/why-teach-kids-about-weather/
- https://blog.kaplanco.com/ii/educating-children-about-weather-climate
- Bill Nye discusses climate change and weather... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtW2rrLHs08
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson discusses weather... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D47wzLYuRuI

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Session specifications

Topic:

Innovative learning environments

Grade level:

3-5

Skill level:

Beginner

Audience:

Teachers

Attendee devices:

Devices not needed

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

all software is open source and easily accessible on any device

Subject area:

Science

ISTE Standards:

For Educators:
Facilitator

Model and nurture creativity and creative expression to communicate ideas, knowledge or connections.

For Students:
Knowledge Constructor

Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.

Global Collaborator

Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

Disclosure:

The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session

Turn Your Classroom Into a Live Weather Lab

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 109AB

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