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- A Day in Your Life for Relative Humidity
This lab is designed to have students find humidity values throughout
their day and correlate them with other locations within the same
city.
- Significant Temperature Variations
This lab is designed to have students take temperature readings
throughout an academic building to test for consistency of the heating
and cooling systems. Students must create recommendations to fix
any problems they find.
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Middle School Collaboration Project
This lab is designed to have students teach and work with middle
school students with the Kestrel units.
See pictures of students in action using
the Kestrels.
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Wind’s
Interactions with Everyday Objects
In this activity students make detailed observations of wind
interactions with common objects in their environment (eg flags, trees,
water surface…) and use the Trackers to accurately record the actual
wind velocity. Students tie these observations to homemade Beaufort Wind
Scales.
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Automobile Temperature Variation
This lab is designed to measure temperature differences between your
car’s interior and the outside atmosphere. Also, to determine whether
the car’s passenger cabin is cooler or warmer than the car’s trunk.
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Relationship Between Angular and Linear Velocity
Students measure linear velocity with
the Kestrel units while traveling in a circle at a constant angular
velocity, estimating angular velocity based on your wind velocity
measurements within a windless environment.
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Building
Entrance Temperatures
In
this lab students determine the effectiveness of the foyer entrance for
retaining heat inside a building, comparing temperatures at a foyer
entrance to those taken at an entrance with only a single exterior
door.
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Integrating Weather Data with GIS/GPS
This exercise, using free resources available on the
web and the Kestrel Weather Tracker is designed to show you how weather
data can be integrated with GPS and GIS operations.
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Determining Temperature and Humidity Profiles
Students took Kestrel units to the
Beaver Island Experimental station and designed an apparatus to test
temperature and humidity profiles over land and water. See pictures of
the Kestrels in action.
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Weather Journals
Three times each day, for a week,
students record
temperature, dew point, wind speed, and pressure and then relate these
parameters to local weather station readings as well as their own
observations about changing weather conditions.
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Instrumentation Project
As meteorologists, it is important that you experience the process of
observing and collecting weather data. For this project, you will
acquire, graph, and interpret meteorological data taken over time using
the hand-held Kestrel weather trackers. You will compare your
observations to those of a nearby “official” station (e.g., any National
Weather Service ASOS station) for your location and keep a written log
during your observation periods.
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