Online Interactive Opportunities

A classroom subscription to the PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE website also includes the following unique opportunities, exclusive to subscribers and accessed using a password:


  •  Monthly UPDATES providing additional ideas about how to use PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE to explore and understand our planet's extreme and normal weather and climate. (View a sample copy of UPDATES-WEATHER.)
  •  Membership in the moderated DISCUSS-WEATHER forum, specifically designed to support teachers participating in PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE (View a sample DISCUSS interactions)
  •  Opportunities to interact during regularly scheduled educator webchats
  •  Access to the "Best of the Web" WEATHER AND CLIMATE NEW & NOW archive (recent NEW & NOW posting)
  •  Downloadable IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE and Student Worksheets allows you to customize handouts and quiz sheets for your students

Your students will be able to take advantage of the following opportunities

  •  RESEARCHER Q&A: the ability to send questions and receive back e-mail answers from Antarctic researchers around the world (sample Q&A pairs)
  •  BIOgraphies and FIELD JOURNALS: new BIOs and JOURNALS exclusive to PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE subscribers (sample BIO; sample FIELD JOURNAL)
  •  Researcher WebChats: real-time text-based interactions with leading scientists (Read a webchat with Art Poland)
  •  Online Collaborations: each semester will offer an opportunity to bring weather and climate research to life for your students, while collaborating via the web with distant classrooms (sample WEATHER WORLDS posting as an example of what will be offered during PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE)
  •  Student Gallery: the opportunity to post exemplary student work online to receive the approbation it (and they, and you!) deserves! (sample student work)

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