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Storm-e is an engaging, culminating event to any weather unit: Grades 4-6.

Duration: 60 Minutes

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  • Science
  • Math

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e-Missions.net: Storm-e (New York City version)

We at Weather Central need your help. Plans are being finalized for the annual New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s City’s Times Square. Since nor’easters are common along the East Coast of the United States, event officials have asked us for timely, accurate weather forecasts. They will use our reports to decide whether to hold this event.

Several conditions determine the weather: air pressure, fronts, temperature, dew point, winds, and clouds. As a meteorologist, you use maps, graphs, and charts to study these conditions. Then you make a prediction.

Storm-e is an engaging, culminating event to any weather unit. The classroom becomes a command center of experts to make weather predictions. Air pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind data is analyzed by your team of experts and they are asked to help make decisions to hold or cancel outdoor events based on maps, charts, graphs, and satellite images provided to each team.

Standards

weather: air pressure, humidity, temperature & wind, graphing, graph interpretation, math in everyday life.

Mission Teams

Air Pressure Team Background Photo

Air Pressure Team

The air pressure team studies the air pressure readings for days 1 - 3. Then they predict what New York's air pressure will be on day 4 and how it will affect the city's weather that day. That's when the event is scheduled...will it go ahead or not?

Humidity Team Background Photo

Humidity Team

The humidity team studies the humidity readings for days 1 - 3. Then they predict what the humidity will be on day 4 in New York and how it will affect the city's weather that day. That's when the events are scheduled...How has the humidity changed from day 1 to day 3?

Temperature Team Background Photo

Temperature Team

The temperature team studies the temperature readings for days 1 - 3. Then they predict what the temperature will be on day 4 in New York and how it will affect the city's weather that day. That's when the events are scheduled...Do you notice any strong trends or patterns?

Wind Team Background Photo

Wind Team

The wind team studies the shape and position of the jet stream for days 1 - 3. Then they predict its location on day 4 and its effect on New York's weather that day. That's when the event is scheduled...How have the shape and position of the jet stream changed from day 1 to day 3?

Technical Requirements

Videoconference Requirements

Videoconferencing system with monitor or LCD

  • The videoconferencing system can be a dedicated videoconferencing unit, by manufacturers such as Polycom®, TendbergTM, or VTEL®, or it can be an extra computer equipped with a webcam, microphone, speakers, and videoconferencing software, such as SkypeTM.
  • The videoconferencing system should be connected to a large screen (either a monitor or an LCD projector). The image should be displayed in the front of the room so the students can see the mission commander and video clips.

 

Phone Numbers

  • Technical support is 304-243-2063 or 304-215-5114.