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Weather Crisis Webquest Website Links




Step 1
(Lesson 1): Research into Air Masses
File Attachments:
  1. Air Masses WS Air Masses WS
  2. Fronts WS 2 Fronts WS 2
  3. Weather Crisis Webquest Instructions Weather Crisis Webquest Instructions
Web Links:
  1. Quiz 1: Air masses Quiz 1: Air masses
    please email to clupton@bcswan.net Make sure you include your name so I can give you credit! Be sure to check instructor box and drag from text option to HTML .
  2. Quiz 2: Fronts Quiz 2: Fronts
    please email to clupton@bcswan.net Make sure you include your name so I can give you credit! Be sure to check instructor box and drag from text option to HTML .

Step 2

Now,
in your group, you each need to choose one of the four main types of air mass
that influences weather in North America to research:



i) Continental Polar (cP)


ii) Maritime Tropical (mT)


iii) Maritime Polar (mP)


iv) Continental Tropical (cT)


Go to the following websites, and find out all you
can about your chosen air mass. Use the information to make notes and draw
diagrams and complete Part 2 of the
research worksheet.

Step 3

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Before we move on to fronts, it’s time to see how much you know. Work together, and tell
each other what you learned about your air mass. Listen to your team-mates, and
fill in the three columns in Part 3
of the research worksheet.





Now individually take the quiz:





Discuss the answers
together (use your text-book for help), take the quiz, click on ‘submit your
answers for grading’, and then email me (Instructor: clupton@bcswan.net) your results (choose
‘HTML’ from the drop-down menu. The lowest grade of all your group members will
be counted for all of the team.

Step 4





Step 4 (Lesson 2): Research into Weather fronts





Now you are going to research weather fronts as a
group. Chose to research one of the four main types of weather fronts:





i)        Cold
fronts


ii)       Warm
fronts


ii)       Occluded
fronts


iv)      Stationary
fronts





Go to the following websites, and find out all you
can about your chosen front. Use the information to make notes and draw
diagrams and complete Part 2 of the
research worksheet.










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Step 5





Step 5:        Quiz time!





It’s time once again to see how much you know. Work
together, and tell each other what you learned about your front. Listen to your
team-mates, and fill in the three columns in Part 3 of the research worksheet.





Now individually, take the quiz:









Discuss the answers together (use your text-book
for help), take the quiz, click on ‘submit your answers for grading’, and then
email me (Instructor: clupton@bcswan.net) your results (choose ‘HTML’ from the
drop-down menu). The highest grade of all your group members will be counted
for all of the team.

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conclusion





Conclusion





Congratulations
expert meteorologists! By the end of the WebQuest you should all be able to
explain in detail what an air mass is, how it is categorized, what air masses
influence the weather here in North America, and what happens at the boundaries
of the air masses.





Now
that you’ve investigated weather fronts and air masses, perhaps you want to
look deeper into more extreme weather? If your interest has been piqued, you
can check out the following websites to learn more:












And
for careers in meteorology:


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Author: chanthou lupton
Last modified: 10/24/2012 3:02 PM (EST)