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<H1 align=center>Weather Satillites</H1>
<P align=center>A WebQuest for 6th Grade on Weather Satillites</P>
<P align=center>by David Lemcoe</P>
<P align=center><A href="mailto:david@davidlemcoe.com">david@davidlemcoe.com</A> </P></TD>
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<P align=center><A
href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/GENERIC/webquest.htm#introduction">Introduction</A>
| <A
href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/GENERIC/webquest.htm#task">Task</A>
| <A
href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/GENERIC/webquest.htm#process">Process</A>
| <A
href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/GENERIC/webquest.htm#evaluation">Evaluation</A>
| <A
href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/GENERIC/webquest.htm#conclusion">Conclusion</A>
| <A
href="http://webquest.sdsu.edu/designpatterns/GENERIC/webquest.htm#credits">Credits</A>
| <A
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<H2>Introduction</H2>
<P>This is where you will learn about how the meterorologists predict the weather. They use the information gotton from weather satillites to make the predictions they make. These satillites cost MILLIONS, sometime BILLIONS of dollars to create and help people anywhere and everywhere now what the weather is and if storms are coming.</P>
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<H2>Task</H2>
<P>Describe crisply and clearly what the end result of the learners'
activities will be. The task could be a: </P>
<UL>
<LI>problem or mystery to be solved;
<LI>position to be formulated and defended;
<LI>product to be designed;
<LI>complexity to be analyzed;
<LI>personal insight to be articulated;
<LI>summary to be created;
<LI>persuasive message or journalistic account to be crafted;
<LI>a creative work, or
<LI>anything that requires the learners to process and transform the
information they've gathered. </LI></UL>
<P>If the final product involves using some tool (e.g., HyperStudio, the
Web, video), mention it here.</P>
<P>Don't list the steps that students will go through to get to the end
point. That belongs in the Process section.</P>
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<H2>Process</H2>
<P>To accomplish the task, what steps should the learners go through?
Describing this section well will help other teachers to see how your
lesson flows and how they might adapt it for their own use, so the more
detail and care you put into this, the better. </P>
<P>Remember that this whole document is addressed to the student, however,
so describe the steps using the second person. </P>
<OL>
<LI>First you'll be assigned to a team of 3 students...
<LI>Once you've picked a role to play....
<LI>... and so on. </LI></OL>
<P>Learners will access the on-line resources that you've identified as
they go through the Process. You may have a set of links that everyone
looks at as a way of developing background information, or not. If you
break learners into groups, embed the links that each group will look at
within the description of that stage of the process. (Note, this is a
change from the older WebQuest templates which included a separate
Resources section. It's now clear that the resources belong in the Process
section rather than alone.) </P>
<P>In the Process section, you might also provide some guidance or
scaffolding on how to organize the information gathered. This advice could
suggestions to use flowcharts, summary tables, concept maps, or other
organizing structures. The advice could also take the form of a checklist
of questions to analyze the information with, or things to notice or think
about. If you have identified or prepared guide documents on the Web that
cover specific skills needed for this lesson (e.g. how to brainstorm, how
to prepare to interview an expert), link them to this section</P>
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<H2>Evaluation</H2>
<P>Describe to the learners how their performance will be evaluated.
Specify whether there will be a common grade for group work vs. individual
grades. You may want to have separate rubrics for individual and group
work.</P>
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<P><FONT size=-1>Beginning</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=-1>1</FONT></P></TH>
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<P><FONT size=-1>Developing</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=-1>2</FONT></P></TH>
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<P><FONT size=-1>Accomplished</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=-1>3</FONT></P></TH>
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<P><FONT size=-1>Exemplary</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=-1>4</FONT></P></TH>
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<P><FONT size=-1>Score</FONT></P></TH></TR>
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<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=40 height=3><BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top align=middle width=120 bgColor=#cccccc height=3>
<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=40 height=3><BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top align=middle width=120 bgColor=#cccccc height=3>
<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=40 height=3><BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top align=middle width=120 bgColor=#cccccc height=3>
<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=40 height=3><BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top align=middle width=120 bgColor=#cccccc height=3>
<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=40 height=3><BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top align=middle width=120 bgColor=#cccccc height=3>
<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=40 height=3><BR></TD></TR>
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<TD vAlign=top align=middle width=120 bgColor=#cccccc height=3>
<P> </P><B>Stated Objective or Performance</B>
<P> </P></TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of
performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting development and movement
toward mastery of performance.</TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. </TD>
<TD align=middle width=80 height=3>Description of identifiable
performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of
performance.</TD>
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<H2>Conclusion</H2>
<P>Put a few sentences here that summarize what they will have
accomplished or learned by completing this activity or lesson.</P>
<P>You might also include some rhetorical questions or additional links to
encourage them to extend their thinking into other content beyond this
lesson. To foster the habit of lifelong learning, give them links to
additional information here that they can pursue on their own.</P>
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<H2>Credits & References</H2>
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about.</P>
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sources as well.</P>
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target=_blank>The WebQuest Page</A> and the <A
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target=_blank>Design Patterns</A> page so that others can acquire the
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<P>We all benefit by being generous with our work. Permission is hereby
granted for other educators to copy this WebQuest, update or otherwise
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