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UW-Madison

Team Members: Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/SSEC/UW-Madison; Amato Evan, CIMSS/SSEC/UW-Madison; Joe Turk, Naval Research Lab; Kelda Hutson, Warren Township High School; Lindsey Kropuenke, Stanford University; Steve Kluge, New York.

2008 UW-Madison AccessData Team

We're planning to develop a Google Earth Hurricane season EET.

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Pre-meeting Sharing Space

Please introduce yourself to your team members. Give a brief description of your role in facilitating the use of data in education. You can also post links, files, or images.

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Session 1 - Thursday Morning
Meet your team members. Learn about the data, tools, and expertise represented on your team. Review DataSheet(s) and explore data and tools.

Team members meet each other and share their experiences and viewpoints on using data in education. Review and discuss DataSheet(s) begun by the data representative(s) for your team. Explore datasets and tools and consider how the expertise on the team can complement them. If you haven't already done so, narrow down the range of datasets the team is considering using to a manageable number.

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Session 2 - Thursday Afternoon
Brainstorm data-use storylines

Brainstorm a set of possible storylines for valid investigations of the dataset(s) you have selected. Come up with at least one compelling scenario that will give users a reason to work through the technological steps necessary to perform an analysis of the data.

The Activity Outline Guide (Microsoft Word 42kB Apr9 08) provides an outline for the minimum information needed for the team's activity outline.

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Sessions 3 and 4 - Friday Morning
Select a data-use scenario and perform a proof-of-concept check

Use the complementary expertise on the team to check that the task you are envisioning can actually be completed in an educational setting. Identify a target grade level for the activity and choose a working title.

Please limit the scope of the activity to tasks that can be accomplished by accessing existing data and tools. Discuss and agree upon the content limits of the activity as well. Consider that the major goal of these activities is to develop user familiarity with the data and tools.

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urls: guiweather.com (hurricane tracks)

Joe: making sea surface temperature charts for 2005 and 2006 and one below average year

Amato: making ave. windshear charts for specific years (05, 06 and below ave year)

Steve and Kelda: writing fine-grained inquiry questions based on previous lesson

Stephanie: looking for possible open-ended/calculation problems (high level)


Sessions 5 and 6 - Friday Afternoon
Develop your case study storyline and outline the procedures for data access and analysis Case Study Development

Record ideas, bullet points, or actual text that will become part of the case study to introduce users to the issues and concepts of the activity. Gather links for appropriate images, diagrams, and background text.

Data Access and Analysis Procedures

Record the name and URL of all datasets and access/analysis software tools to be used. List the major tasks users will complete, then perform a deliberate walk-through of each task to capture the full sequence of procedures. Give special attention to the most difficult or least intuitive steps, and note points in the sequence where additional information will be helpful.

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Navigating Hurricane Highway Seasonally via Google Earth

Major tasks:

After downloading a single KMZ file...

1) analyze individual hurricane and SST via google Earth

2) observe relationship between SST and 2005 season

3) predict 2006 hurricane season based on SST

4) learn about wind shear and influence on 2006 season


Go further-

1) calculate the total kinetic wind energy in one hurricane

2) calculate total energy released through rain or cloud formation (latent heat)

3) real-time data via CIMSS and NRL web sites including wind shear


Session 7 - Saturday Morning
Enhance your step-by-step procedures by adding "About" sections that provide extra information; List several ideas for "Going Further" with the data or tools

Fill in any gaps in your activity outline and add sections that can help users make meaning of the data. Suggest several ideas for the "Going Further" section that challenge users to work with the data and/or tools in other investigations. These suggestions provide launching points for scientific inquiry which is facilitated by the skills learned in the activity.

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Session 8 - Final Team Breakout
Finalize your Activity outline and DataSheet, Generate PowerPoint slides for the report out session, Upload all resources to this page

Create a 2- or 3-slide ppt file for the report out session.

  • Slide 1: Team name, names of team members, and a brief phrase to describe each individual's contribution
  • Slide 2: Working title for your activity, names of dataset(s) and tool(s) utilized
  • Slide 3: Your choice of something to illustrate your team's vision of the completed activity

Attach the file plus any other documents produced by the team to this page. Include final versions of the team's DataSheet.

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Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Final PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint 3.5MB May3 08)


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