WEBQUEST

1.- Title: What's it like outside?

2.- Introduction:For as long as people have been aware of weather, they’ve pondered its impact on their health. The Greeks noted the effect of “hot and cold winds” on pain and illness 2,400 years ago. During the Civil War, physicians wrote about amputee soldiers sensing pain in their “phantom” limbs when the weather changed. And folk wisdom tells of people who “feel the weather in their bones.”

http://www.vhl.org/newsletter/vhl2005/05aeweat.htm
3.-The task:You are going to be a weather forecaster during the following week. You have to gather information about the weather of different English speaking countries and you will compare it to Seville´s weather.
4.-Process:Roles:
-There will be five groups with 4 weather forecasters and one group with 5 weather forecaster.
-In the computer room you will work in pairs.
-In each group they will compare the results writing sentences describing the gathered results. Also, they will describe the weather terms used.
-Each weather forecaster will write his or her text.
-The extra weather forecaster in the group of 5 will be instructor of all the groups, regulating all the presentations which will be like a forecast tv program.
Steps:
In the computer room:All the members of the group have to take notes about the weather in an English speaking country in a specific day.
They have also to take notes about the weather in Seville in the same day.
The weather forecasters have to write a short text comparing both results.
They will recollect definitions of the terms used in the descriptions of the weather such as temperature, humidity… It can be shown in a poster with a weather chart.

Forecast:All the weather forecaster will participate in their own tv program. The exta weather forecast will introduce the rest to the class or spectators.
First, they will read at least one definition of the terms that they will use in the presentation. After the definitions, they will read two sentences each one comparing the weather in Seville with the English speaking country.
After the presentation, students can stick ttheir posters on the walls of the class.

5.- Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu
http://www.learner.org/interactives/weather
http://67.192.11.212/p/weather.php
http://www.weather.gov/safety.php
http://mmem.spschools.org/grade5science/weather/

6. Evaluation:
POOR ...GOOD... VERY GOOD
Group participation and cooperation
Gathering information
Use of the new vocabulary
Use of the comparatives and superlatives

Personal writing
Oral presentation
Show interest in other presentations
7. Conclusion:
After your research is complete, the texs that the forecasters have read can be sticked on the walls of the class. The texts can be illustrated with different images of the countries.