Weather Forecast Showdown

Grades 5 – 9
Helps students learn concepts in Statistics while comparing the accuracy of local weather forecasters. Concepts include absolute errors, relative errors and bias.

As Time Goes By in Weather Forecasting

Grades 5 – 12
Helps students learn concepts in Statistics while comparing the accuracy of local weather forecasters. Concepts include absolute and relative errors, bias, and dependence of forecast errors on lag times.

Acid Thunder: Saving El Tajín from Acid Rain

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Grades 5 – 12
Students will learn about the meteorological and chemical components of acid rain, as well as its damaging effects on ancient monuments. This is an integrated
project involving science and social studies (ancient Mesoamerican civilizations).

These WebQuests were created by Dr. Jonathan Kahl & Kevin Horwitz