DataStreme

ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 12


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Happy Holidays!

ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 12

7 December 2001

  1. With this week's work and your final group meeting, DataStreme, Fall 2001, is at an end! This semester has been very successful because of your dedication and effort. Sincere and well-deserved thank you's go to all LIT leaders, LIT members, and all DataStreme staff, past and present. We hope you have found this experience to be as rewarding as we have.

  2. LIT leaders are reminded that grade recommendations are due to DataStreme Central no later than 17 December (see Week 11 Answer Key for details) along with the participants' evaluations and the End-of-Course Surveys. Honoraria checks to those eligible LIT members will be mailed when materials are received.

    It is not necessary to send Plans of Action or weather bags to DataStreme Central, however, we would appreciate receiving exemplary samples of a participant's classroom materials, student artifacts, or interactions with other teachers that are based on the DataStreme course. We also have need of any evidence that DataStreme participants have had an effect on their state and/or district frameworks/standards.

  3. DataStreme Future: As most of you know, the NSF-funded period of DataStreme was over in 2000. From the original target figure of 4140 teachers to be trained, we have provided that experience for about 5680! And we aren't done yet! We have been able to stretch the run of DataStreme by the use of residual funding. But where do we go from here?

    We will continue DataStreme at about the same number of LITs for this spring term as has run this fall. We are also discussing a continuation level of funding with some sources that will allow a sustained operation of this type. We are very hopeful at this time of such an arrangement. When there is a firm commitment, we will let everyone know. We thank everyone for your continuing faith and support of DataStreme.

  4. We encourage use of the DataStreme Junction page by course alumni in their roles as resource teachers (and certainly yourselves). However, we recommend potential participants and general inquiries about DataStreme be directed to the original DataStreme Homepage as that contains application and contact information about the Project and course.

  5. For this coming Spring 2002 term, DataStreme learning files will begin transmission again with Preview Week. Until Preview Week, the DataStreme Homepage will contain a link to a current weather discussion and sample DataStreme files. Meteorological products will of course be updated through the holiday break.

    DataStreme Course Schedule for Spring 2002 was delivered with Week 11 Answer Key. Preview week is the Week of January 21; Week 1 is the week of January 28; Spring Break is the week of March 11; and Week 12 is the week of April 22.

  6. If you have not already done so, LIT members are requested to complete and submit the LIT Evaluation to DataStreme Central.


WEEK 12 ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. 119 km per hour (74 miles per hour)
  2. counterclockwise
  3. smaller
  4. hurricanes
  5. significant Coriolis effect
  6. August
  7. flooding
  8. high
  9. right
  10. decreases, . . toward
  11. higher
  12. evacuation
  13. - 15. [as appropriate by participant]

B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. storm surge
2. normal lunar tides
  Thursday:
1. is (map shows all NWS offices with links to their homepages)
2. is - . . . this is an important reference for teachers

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 12A:

  1. See Key image 1
  2. 340 n. mi., 14 n. mi. per hr., 7 n. mi. per hr., later
  3. position 3
  4. Gulfport, . . 27 hours, . . is
  5. no, . . northern Florida
  6. a different, . . slowed down
  7. no answer needed (plot on map)
  8. Mobile, . . strengthened, . . 3, . . strong
  9. decreasing, . . 3 hrs, . . Gulfport
  10. decreased, . . rose
  11. east
  12. high, cold, . . .heavy
  13. 119 km/hr (74 mi/hr), . . friction
  14. 25 inches
  15. inland flooding

ACTIVITY 12B:

  1. no answer needed
  2. type - rain/mixed/snow
  3. twenty-four
  4. red

If you have comments or questions, you may send email to: amsedu@dc.ametsoc.org.

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