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Ongoing Activity: Tracking the Daily Weather by Satellite

Overview

The basic concept of this activity is for your students to monitor the weather on a daily, on-going basis, using the satellite images.

1. On a daily (or even hourly) basis, download the images (regional, western hemisphere and/or world). If you have a printer, print-out the images (in gray-scale for full detail, and post them on a bulletin board. Add captions to highlight key features (such as the location of a storm system). If you do not have access to a printer, you can have the students draw the basic shapes and locations of the clouds on a map.

2. Each time a new image is downloaded, print it out and post it on the bulletin board, highlighting changes since the previous image (such as the motion of the storm system). It is especially important to focus on weather over or approaching your school. If students are drawing the images on a map, have them use arrows to indicate the motion of storms from one day to the next.

3. With experience, your students can prepare daily weather briefing for your class, or for the entire school, pointing out key features of the day's weather, with a forecast based on the observed motion of clouds and weather towards your school.

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