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ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Preview Week: 3-7 September 2001


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ANNOUNCEMENTS

7 September 2001

  1. Welcome to DataStreme for Fall 2001! The preview week for the DataStreme course is now completed. We hope the Preview Week was valuable for participants wanting to get started early, and for you if you are a new LIT member. Mentors should be sure participants establish a habit of communicating with you early on by responding promptly to their faxed materials and encouraging any questions. This beginning period is important to develop the necessary rapport and pick up on early difficulties which could cause frustration. It is also important to have participants organize their weekly materials to prevent feelings of a "paper chase".

    Next week's "Week 1" activities will duplicate the activities of this Preview Week. Although the answers will not change, please check these Answer Key Announcements next week for additional course information. These Announcements are our main communications link with you LIT members.

  2. Note that Activities 1A and 1B have been reversed from previous years. Joe and Bob wanted to give the switch a try. If you or your participants have comments regarding this ordering, we would like to hear them.

  3. Leaders: Please mail the completed, original SUNY Brockport course Registration Forms and Beginning-of-Course Surveys to DataStreme Central as soon as possible. Please make and retain a copy of the SUNY form for yourself in case mailed forms become lost.

  4. Please be sure participants are aware of both Homepage addresses for DataStreme (AMS with COMET as backup) as frustration can be minimized if there are options in getting to the Homepage in the least time possible. You may also need to remind them about "RELOAD" or "REFRESH" if problems with old maps keep occurring.


ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. [as appropriate by participant]
  2. [as appropriate by participant]
  3. [as appropriate by participant]
  4. falls, fall
  5. lower, thunderstorms
  6. south, south, from which
  7. counterclockwise
  8. Lows
  9. rising, eastward
  10. northwest
  11. colder
  12. decreases
  13. [as appropriate by participant]
  14. [as appropriate by participant]
  15. [as appropriate by participant]

Questions 13, 14, 15 should be used by participants to consider how they can use the course in ways relevant for their school situations. Mentors should use the answers to initiate dialogue and have teachers consider innovative ways to use the information, both in their own classrooms and with their colleagues. If answers here are missing or vague, you should initiate discussions about this. Remember, our long-term goal is to help participants become weather education resource persons for their schools, districts, and communities.


B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. 1600 CDT or 4 PM
2. 2000Z or 20Z
  Thursday:
1. cool and dry
2. maritime tropical

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 1A:

Note: Copies of the hand-twist depictions are not shown due to the great variation of individual possibilities.

  1. - 5. on Figures 1 and 2. The "hand-twist" spirals will vary for each participant. Common features should be that lines on Figure 1 (High) are headed clockwise and outward, while on Figure 2 (Low) they are directed counterclockwise and inward.
  1. c - clockwise and spiraling outward
  2. b - counterclockwise and spiraling inward
  3. falls, rises
  4. downward, upward
  5. a - downward and outward in a clockwise spiral
  6. d - upward and inward in a counterclockwise spiral
  7. in the
  8. in the
  9. no answer needed
  10. east, east
  11. clockwise
  12. outward from, consistent with
  13. southeast, outward from
  14. counterclockwise, is

ACTIVITY 1B:

  1. on Image 1 map segment
  2. 4 mb
  3. 994, 1002, 1010 are omitted
  4. on Key Image 1 map segment
  5. see Key Image 2 map
  6. Low: central US, High: eastern Canada
  7. low, . . . . high
  8. 1004 mb
  9. 1016 mb
  10. 00Z on 03 SEP 2001
  11. 994 mb in south central Canada
  12. 1019 mb at several locations in New England (New York City, Boston, and Fredericton, NB)
  13. 996, 1000, 1004, 1008, 1012, 1016
  14. On map of Pressures for 00Z 03 SEP 2001 (Key Image 3)
  15. did

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