Assignment No.3

ASSIGNMENT NO.3

Assignment #3 will take you into USA Today. It is a good weather education site that seems appropriate for a variety of grade levels. This should be particularly good for you who are education majors. Others will find it particularly good due to all the weather information and links to many other sites dealing with weather. USA Today is particularly known for its computer cartography. Please note the computer generated graphics and weather maps.

Go to NETSCAPE and click on OPEN LOCATION and type in:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm or Click on USA Today on Good's Links

You'll USA Today Weather
Go to Weather Extremes
Notice Highs and Lows for past 7 days. Take a date and identify it and answer the following:
1. List high and low and where recorded.
2. Why did the place you selected have the low temperature? (Use your knowledge of controls)
3. Why did the place you selected have the high temperature? (Use your knowledge of controls)
Go back to Weather Basics. Go down to The Global Climate. Click on Understanding El Nino.
Click on What is El Nino?
4. Answer what is "El Nino?"
5. Go to More News. Choose a news story and explain what you found.
Go to Weather Outlook and go to Floods and Droughts. Go to latest information on Drught of 2002.
What state of drought in Georgia?
6. Go to Weather Basics
Go to Hurricanes
7. Find a highlighted site about huricanes and click and tell what you found. What was interesting to you about the site?
Go back to Weather Basics.
Go down to Air Masses and Their Sources.
8. Click on one of the six air masses and explain the air mass.
Go down to Sea Breezes.
9. Explain Sea Breeze?
10. Go back and click How pressure differences cause wind. Explain?
Go back and click on Learning About Fog.
Click on how radiation fog forms and look at the graphic and explain:
11. Why are fall nights often perfect for forming fog?
Go back and click on advection fog.
12. Note the nice graphic and explain how advection fog forms? Have you noticed advection fog along the Georgia coast especially east of I-95?
Go back and click on An Introduction to Humidity. 13. Define Relative Humidty?
Go back and click on hurricanes and click on Why, how hurricanes are named?
14. Click on T.S. Hanna. What did it show? Explain map.
Go back to Temperature Extremes and go to each states highest temperature record.
15. What was Georgia's highest temperature, when, and where?
Go to each states lowest temperature.
17. What was Georgia's lowest temperature, when, and where? How far do you live from the place?
Go back to Weather Basics and click. You'll find hundreds of topics..
18. Choose one (1) that interest you. Briefly summarize what you found and relate to concepts discussed in class. Warning: this section can be addictive.
There is a wealth of information at USA Today. Send Prof. Good email answers to [email protected]

As always, comment on the exercise, problems you had, your reactions to this information superhighway stuff, how you could incorporate it into your own classes and/or discipline (outdoor rec, biology, education, history, etc).

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