Jessica Michaelson

SLM 521

June 6, 2005

Weather Around the World

Purpose: We have been studying multiple graphs in our unit on statistics. Also, as a class, you have been studying a specific country for multi-cultural month. Your job is to combine the two things that you have been working so hard on. We are going to visit the same web site that we did in the first web dropin, along with a related website. There, you graphed the weather in your town. Now, you will compare the weather in your town, and a town in the country you are studying.

*Note: This will take 2 to 3 days in math to do!!*

Your Job:

Step 1:

· Go to the weather website that you visited in the first web dropin.

· Type in your zip code (21045) and then click on go.

· After that, click on the 10-day forecast, to see what the weather will be like for the next week and a half.

Step 2:

· Now go to the Country Reports website.

· In the area where it tells you to choose a country or location, search and click on the country that your class is studying.

· On the left-hand side of the site that pops up, click on the link that says “Today’s Weather.”

· In the blue box that pops up in the center of the screen, you should see “Get the 10 day forecast.” Click on that sentence to bring up your country’s weather for the next week and a half.

Step 3:

· Create the following graphs to compare the weather in the country you live in and the country you are studying:

o Double line graph

o Double bar graph

o Back-to-back stem and leaf plot

Step 4:

· Type up a summary in Microsoft Word, comparing the two countries weather and climate, and how it is expressed in your graphs.

· Print out a hard copy of your summary and place this, along with your graphs in the completed assignments basket.