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Curriculum Resources for the Alaskan Environment
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Subject Areas: earth
science, math, geography, data recording, graphing,
carpentry
Timeline: two semesters
Grade Levels: 9-12
Purpose: to predict the
weather; to understand regional weather
patterns
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Gary Shriver
Local Weather
Station
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Activities
- Construct a small structure to
house the weather instruments.
- Maintain the structure; record the
weather data daily.
- Make a one- and three-day weather
forecast
- Graph data for possible long-range
patterns.
- Radio or telephone the community
weather conditions to local air taxi services or control
towers, if an airport is nearby.
- Make the weather reports available
to the community.
- Use the data to attempt to make
long-range predictions.
Resources
- regional resource
centers
- local Federal Aviation
Administration sites
- libraries
- Weller, Gunter (Ed.). (1979,
July). Alaska's Weather and Climate
- United States Weather
Bureau
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Association
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Variations
- Make field trips to an Federal
Aviation Administration site or airport control tower to
see how weather data is collected, how weather maps and
satellite photos are interpreted for incoming air traffic
of weather conditions, and how forecasts arc
made.
- Collect local traditional and folk
weather predicting methods.
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