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Your storm trackers become the weather experts as they analyze data, assess the severity of the storms and make recommendations for affected areas.

Students work as a team of specialists from NOAA’s Extreme Weather Response Unit. Each team has meteorological experts that monitor weather data to accurately forecast atmospheric conditions and track a variety of severe weather events. In this case the team will be helping to monitor very volatile conditions that appear to signal a very active storm period.

Each team will track storms by plotting longitude and latitude coordinates. They will establish which areas fall within the cone of uncertainty and calculate ETA's to these affected areas.

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About This Program

Cost

By Request: $400.00
By Request Premium: $400.00


A FREE Teacher Training session for teachers/staff/administrators is included in the price of this program. Training sessions are scheduled by calling Laura Ondeck at 304-243-2029 or scheduling on-line at www.e-missions.net. The training session is scheduled at your convenience; you name the date/time desired. CILC members automatically receive a discount price from $550 to $400/ mission.

Length

90 minutes


Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Minimum participants:

8

Maximum participants:

30 +


Primary Disciplines

Career Education, Gifted & Talented, Health/Physical Education, International, Language Arts/English, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Reading, Sciences, Social Studies/History, Special Education, Special Needs, Technology/Information Science


Program Delivery Mode

Videoconference - H.323 (Polycom, Cisco/Tandberg, LifeSize, etc...)
Google Hang Out
Skype



Booking Information

Sorry, this program is not currently available. To inquire about future availability, please contact Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling University (West Virginia)

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For more information contact CILC at (507) 388-3672

Provider's Cancellation Policy

There will be no charge for cancelations due to weather or extreme circumstances. We will charge the full price of a mission if it is canceled less than 48 hours prior to the event; but we will work to reschedule the mission so that no loss is realized by the school/district.

About This Provider

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Challenger Learning Center at Wheeling University (West Virginia)

Wheeling, WV
United States

In addition to offering award winning, state-of-the-art programs in a $500,000 space simulator, the Challenger Learning Center, thanks to technology, brings its innovative programs to distant classrooms around the world through its electronic distance-learning programs, known as e-Missions. The CLC flies more than 800 e-Missions for schools, many located in traditionally underserved districts, each year. We provide FREE Teacher Training sessions via video conference for any of our distance learning programs.

The Challenger Learning Center® also offers adult and student learners the chance to climb aboard a space station and complete a mission in the role of astronauts, scientists, and engineers with its Corporate Missions. A successful mission requires critical thinking, leadership, cooperation, and problem solving.

Contact:
Laura Ondeck
londeck@wju.edu
3042432029

Program Details

Format

During the event, the students receive new data sets from satellites every 5 minutes to help them track these storms. Your team will analyze the data as it is collected by various weather stations and air flights and predict not only the immediate forecast, but more long-range forecasts for potential flooding from storm surges. Under extreme weather conditions students may have to recommend evacuation of threatened areas to save lives and get people to safety.

Objectives

Students will provide accurate analysis of the weather situation for multiple storms in Hurricane Alley. They forecast where these storms may hit, calculate the ETA (Estimated Times of Arrival) and issue evacuation orders or recommendations as needed throughout the mission.

Standards Alignment

National Standards

This program has been aligned to state/national standards and you can check out the complete list on www.e-missions.net under "Standards and Objectives" on the Teacher's Toolkit.

State Standards

This program has been aligned to state/national standards and you can check out the complete list on www.e-missions.net under "Standards and Objectives" on the Teacher's Toolkit.