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Dear partners,
as a teacher of Science and Math, who joined Comenius Project only this
year, I wonder: is there any class and teacher interested in a project
on meteorology?
I was struck by the potentiality of us being settled in places at significant
differences of latitude and longitude. Ways of living and habits are
strongly conditioned by weather and climate, and life must be very different
in a country where thermometers go below zero or stay over on winter
time…
Most of all, landscapes around us change their aspect and it might be
interesting to share visions and data about our habitats along seasonal
variations.
I don't know enough about science curriculum, and less more about methodologies
for teaching scientific subjects, used in each partner's school. But
I like to throw a ball hoping it would bounce around and around…
One never knows.
Paola De Meo
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- What (Topics)
So to trace the broad outline of my proposal it would be possible
to share experiences, information, ideas, et., on phenomena as
" Temperature
" Atmospheric pressure
" Wind direction and force
" Precipitations
" Humidity
" Daylight hours
" Shadows direction and length along day hours and through the
months
" Periodical observations of a special place (in our school garden,
other…)
" Periodical observations on shared weather reports (i.e. from
Internet) 
" …
- How (Methodology)
" Observations and photos
" Data collection, tabulation, analysis, …
" Diagrams: creation, interpretation, …
" Construction in the class of simple but reliable instruments,
i.e. rain-gauge, hygrometer, anemometer, gnomon, et.
" Data recording by common scientific instruments as thermometer,
barometer,…
" Sharing: experiences, impressions, data, problems, et., between
classes by e-mail, by students' and teachers' forum
" Sharing methodologies, activities, ideas, difficulties and
ways of overcoming them between teachers
- Why (Educational objects)
" Teaching curricular contents involving pupils in language exchanges
as well as in sharing of knowledge
" Exploring peculiar characters of own country by comparing them
with other countries distinctive features
" Construction by students of extended patterns of meteorological
facts beyond regional boundaries
" Sharing of ideas and methodological issues on geographic and
scientific teaching
Outcomes (to be eventually published on web and/or paper)
" Students' and teachers' journal of work (including drawings,
graphs, phots, mail, et.)
" Students' and teachers' concluding report on the achieved results
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