FEBRUARY 2015
I. Project 2061 Launches New WeatherSchool@AAAS Website
Designed for middle- and high-school students and teachers, the new WeatherSchool@AAAS site uses real-world data collected from around the globe to teach fundamentals about weather and climate. In a series of interactive modules that include graphing tools, data sets, guided activities, and quizzes, students learn how moving air masses can cause day-to-day temperature variation, how geographic factors such as elevation above sea level can influence temperature at any given location, and how the movement of the earth in relation to the sun can affect temperature over the course of a year. The new site is consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards and encourages teachers to integrate the core ideas that students are learning with the practices of science, such as generating data, creating graphs and tables, and looking at relationships and patterns. Read more. Explore the site.
