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Students learn about hurricanes via Weatherbug
September 2007
On
September 20, the Grade 5 ROW team took their classes to the LGI
room at Mohonasen High School for a science/technology-based field
trip where students participated in a lesson about hurricanes via
phone conference.
The phone conference was set up through Weatherbug with
Meteorologist Joe Bartosik, who was stationed in Maryland. Joe
helped students understand the facts about hurricanes through a
PowerPoint presentation, which was viewed by 27 different schools in
more than 14 states.
The students listened in awe as schools from all over the country
called in with questions for Joe.
In science class, each student wrote a question that they wanted to
ask the meteorologist. All of the questions were collected,
compiled, and a select few were e-mailed to the meteorologist. There
was only time for 10 questions to be read and answered—and one of
the questions came from Pinewood students!
