COME RAIN, COME SHINE

by Christopher T. Miller

Topics:
Weather, Time Zones

Type of Web activity:
Find information & verify it via "web cam"

Materials / Software needed:
Web browser

Audience:
Student

Grade Level:
4th grade - adult

Time involved:
1 - 2 class periods

Created on:
8/9-11/00...

The Web Science Workshop lessons were created in cooperation with the Exploratorium Teacher Institute .

This site developed and maintained by Deborah Hunt and Eric Muller .

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Is it really night on the "other side" of the world? Are the people there really sleeping right now? Is it raining today in Paris? Is the Golden Gate Bridge covered by fog? Is it really snowing in Chicago like they said it would? This site will help you learn to use the Internet to answer questions like these.......... Try it out!

CLICK ON THE ACTIVITIES ONE BY ONE:

ACTIVITY ONE:	This is an introduction to what the activities are all about.
ACTIVITY TWO:	Here's how to find the weather forecast for almost anywhere in the world!
ACTIVITY THREE:	This one shows you how to find out where it's day and where it's night right now on planet Earth.
ACTIVITY FOUR:	This page shows you how find a LIVE (or almost live) "web cam" picture or video of many different places in the world.
ACTIVITY FIVE:	In this activity you use all the skills you learned in Activities 2 - 4 to check the accuracy of the weather forecast for lots of different places across the globe.

Note for Editor:

All images are from Art Today.com