Best Weather
Sample Math WebQuest 1
(grades 3-8)
Introduction: Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. Your team will continue this tradition and select the city in the United States with the best weather to talk about.Task: Your first group task will be to define "best weather." Then you will select five possible cities and collect data from weather websites about their weather. You will use this information to select the "best weather" city and present your conclusions in poster format.
Resources:
The Weather Channel: http://www.weather.com
Yahoo Weather Center: http://weather.yahoo.com
USA Today Climate Guides: http://usatoday.com/weather/climate/usa/wusaclim.htmProcess:
Conclusion:
- Discuss and come up with a group definition of "best weather."
- Using a map, select five possible cities that might have the "best weather."
- Go to various online weather and city sites to obtain data about monthly high and low temperatures and rainfall for each city.
- Represent this data in tables and graphs. You may use Works or other spreadsheet to construct your tables and graphs.
- Decide as a group, based on the data, what is the "best weather city."
- Present your conclusions in poster format. Posters of all groups will be displayed at Parent's Night.
In this activity, you will use the internet as a data source for a problem solving activity. You will be connecting real-world weather data to analysis and representation. You will use your reasoning skills to reach a conclusion based on the data, and will communicate your conclusions in poster format.
Direct link to sample data -- Memphis
Direct link to sample data -- Beckley
Link to sample student graph