This project was created as an assignment for a Teaching with Technology class at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh NY with Dr. Smirnova. The project begins with a whole class lesson on spreadsheets, and then the students go to this page to finish the project as a webquest:
This lesson plan introduces the project and the students create an excel spreadsheet to begin to store data that will be used later to create a chart.
Once the students have gathered enough data to create the chart they will download this file from the WebQuest page and follow the instructions to use Excel to create a chart that shows the temperature variations between Sydney Australia, and Poughkeepsie, NY over a period of time
The document below is a scoring guide. It's not quite a rubric, but it assigns point values to the different components of the chart printout. You can use it to grade their assignments.