Aligned to National Standards

This Weather Watch activity meets national standards by providing students with opportunities in the following areas.

Math
National Council for Teachers of Mathematics:

• Selects and uses appropriate instruments and technology to measure in real-world situations
• Generalizes a pattern, relation, or function to explain how a change in one quantity results in a change in another
• Analyzes real-world data to recognize relationships using graphic models generated by technology

Reading and Language Arts
International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE):

• Collects data, facts, and ideas
• Uses knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources
• Compares, synthesizes, interprets, and analyzes information from different sources
• Selects, organizes, and categorizes information using a wide variety of strategies
• Relates new information to prior knowledge and experience
• Uses text features that make information accessible and usable
• Establishes authoritative stance on a subject
• Develops information using facts and details
• Analyzes interprets, and evaluates information, ideas, organization, and language from text
• Listens attentively to others and builds on others' ideas in discussions

Science
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA):

• Plans and implements investigative procedures
• Uses equipment and technology
• Collects data by observing and measuring
• Analyzes and interprets information to construct reasonable explanations from direct and indirect evidence
• Communicates valid conclusions
• Constructs graphic structures of information using tools including computers to organize, examine, and evaluate data
• Analyzes and reviews scientific explanations
• Represents the natural world using models and identifies their limitations

Technology
Technology Foundation Standards for Students:

• Use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity
• Use technology tools to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences
• Use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences
• Use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources
• Use technology tools to process data and report results
• Employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world