Procedures:

• By this time you should already have a handout from your teacher that has two US maps on it, if you do not have this, talk to your teacher
• Pick two days of the year 2011, one in spring (March-May) and one in fall (September-November) and write the dates in the appropriate blank on your maps
• Go to this website and find your days using the menu.
• On your maps draw in the following features from your chosen days:
  • High Pressure (H)
  • Low Pressure (L)
  • Cold Fronts
  • Warm Fronts
  • Stationary Fronts
• Go to this website and find the location of the jet stream(s), add them to your maps
• When you are finished hold onto your paper, your teacher will pick them up from you at the end of class
• You may go to this website, but no where else unless you have specific permission from your teacher

Before I get too far into this I want to point out that the website I have been using to set up our class pages is currently blocked by the filtering software at the middle school. Mr. Schumacher and I are working on getting it unblocked so that students will have full access to it on campus. As of right now I can temporarily unblock it in my classroom for students that cannot work online from home. We MAY have to switch website providers, but I am hoping we do not have to. If we must switch it will be after this project, and I will make sure that any work done on this site is ported over to any new home we may have to move into.

Our classwebsite can be found here and is in the format of a wiki. For those of you unfamiliar with the wiki format ask your children, they should be able to tell you! Currently it does not have much content or links on it, that will change throughout the year as the students create and add content.

For this first project the information is located on the here on the pony projects portion of our website, you can also get to it by clicking through from the home page linked above.

If you have any questions please use the contact form on my school site (this one, not wikispaces) or email me at agoodman@mfisd.txed.net.

Have a great day!

Keep checking this blog for updated course information and details about assignments along the way.

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