ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 10


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ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 10

17 November 2000

  1. The successful Fall 2000 DataStreme course is rapidly approaching the finish line. LIT leaders should have received materials for their final course meeting by now or they will receive them shortly. The last teams' materials are being shipped presently. If materials have not arrived by Wednesday, Nov. 22nd, contact DataStreme Central immediately. The materials include certificates and multiple copies of Today's Weather teacher guides, with an answer key, for participants to use in continuing work as Weather Education Resource Teachers. Please review this guide so that you can introduce it to your participants at your final meeting.

    There is also an End-of-Course Survey sent with the final meeting materials that we would like participants to fill out at the final meeting. PLEASE USE ONLY THIS VERSION, NOT those from previous semesters.

  2. Remind participants during the weekly mentoring interactions that this week's, Week 10, Activity A (Monday), included guidelines for writing their Plans of Action that need to be brought to the final meeting and discussed with the group. Also, participants should bring their "portfolio" or archive of materials from the course in their weather bags for review by mentors. You may need to remind them that this should include examples of DataStreme materials they have taken into their classrooms and/or student-generated artifacts that demonstrate use of DataStreme products in the classroom.

  3. The participant course evaluation form will be transmitted directly to participants via the Monday, Week 11, activity files. LIT leaders should make a few extra copies to bring to the final meeting for those participants who forget theirs (you know how teachers are! - human). Also, USE ONLY THIS SEMESTER'S VERSION. Do not use versions from previous semesters.

    Participant evaluations and the final survey must be mailed by the LIT leader to DataStreme Central following the final meeting. With the Week 11 Answer Key we will transmit a separate evaluation form for LIT members so you may comment on the course from your perspective. A "checklist" of tasks for LIT leaders to wrap-up the Fall 2000 DataStreme session will be listed in the Week 11 Answer Key also.

Happy Thanksgiving Holiday


WEEK 10 ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. underlying Earth's surface
  2. temperature and/or humidity
  3. warmer
  4. fronts, . . temperature and/or humidity
  5. falling temperature, . . falling dewpoint, . . rising air pressure, . . west
  6. counterclockwise, . . more
  7. more
  8. northeast
  9. southeast
  10. east
  11. Denver, Colorado
  12. higher
  13. - 15. [as appropriate by participant]

B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. are not
2. all of the above
Thursday:
1. persistence
2. numerical weather prediction models

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 10A:

  1. counterclockwise and inward
  2. warm, . . cold
  3. warm
  4. cold
  5. south
  6. rise, . . fall, . . rise or remain steady (time advances to the left in the small window traces)
  7. southeast to the southwest
  8. increases, . . ahead of
  9. narrower
  10. southwest to the northwest, . . fall
  11. fall, . . rises
  12. in the middle and upper troposphere
  13. falls
  14. rise
  15. shrinks
  16. curved arc from east Kansas southeastward to northern Alabama should have semicircles on northern side to be a warm front, curved arc from east Kansas southward to northern Mexico should have triangles on east side to be a cold front
  17. counterclockwise, inward
  18. 20's to negative single digits
  19. along and just ahead of, snow
  20. cooler, less humid, west, 10 knots, higher, 1016.5 mb
  21. warm, cold
  22. 60's, 30's, higher
  23. all of these areas
  24. strong pressure gradient, many isobars

ACTIVITY 10B:

  1. no answer needed
  2. no answer needed
  3. cold, . . warm, . . positions on Key Image 1 (participant images will probably vary GREATLY, common element should be that fronts extend to the southeast side of the storm tracks and that each warm front precedes the cold front.)
  4. do not
  5. northeast, . . cold
  6. do, . . positions on Key Image 1
  7. southwest, . . northwest, . . warm (answers for wind directions based on WeatherCycler reasoning)
  8. A
  9. falls, . . rises, . . anticyclone
  10. Minnesota-Wisconsin
  11. east, . . Mississippi, . . cold, . . around
  12. south, . . warm
  13. 00Z 15 NOV 2000
  14. temp: 45 °F, . . wind: south, . . cloud cover: overcast,. . probability of precipitation: 58%, . . weather: rain
  15. northern Wisconsin, . . freezing rain
  16. Wisconsin to Texas
  17. below, . . above

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