ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 12


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Have a Happy Holiday Season!


ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 12

8 December 2000

  1. With this week's work and your final group meeting, DataStreme, Fall 2000, is at an end! This semester has been very successful, in great part through your dedication and effort. Sincere and well-deserved thank you's go to all LIT leaders, LIT members, and all DataStreme staff, past and present. We hope you have found this experience to be as rewarding as we have.

  2. LIT leaders are reminded that grade recommendations are due to DataStreme Central no later than 15 December (see Week 11 Answer Key for details) along with the participants' evaluations and the End-of-Course Surveys. Honoraria checks to those eligible LIT members will be mailed in early January.

    It is not necessary to send Plans of Action or weather bags to DataStreme Central, however, we would appreciate receiving exemplary samples of a participant's classroom materials, student artifacts, or interactions with other teachers that are based on the DataStreme course. We also have need of any evidence that DataStreme participants have had an effect on their state and/or district frameworks/standards.

    Please return the Resource reports to us immediately if you have not already done so. Your Resource reports are very important to us because DataStreme will be attempting to stretch residual grant funds as far as possible.

  3. DataStreme Future: As most of you know, DataStreme was funded by NSF as a five-year project beginning in 1 July 1995 with the target of training 4,140 teachers. Through a tremendous effort by literally a cast of hundreds (including you), we have conducted a project that has far exceeded project goals and we have done it at a significantly lower cost per participant than expected. By the end of the five-year funding period, we trained 4,497! Through this semester, we have trained 5,114 teachers! And there are more to come!

    We have been able to run DataStreme for the sixth year because we received a no-cost one-year extension of our NSF grant, and we had enough residual funding in the grant to do so. But where do we go from here?

    Everyone, including NSF, agrees that the DataStreme Project is outstandingly successful by about every measure. Everyone agrees it should continue. Unfortunately, we have been unable so far to find funding to make that possible. NSF, for example, does not provide funding to keep programs going indefinitely. So, we continue to work towards finding other sources. We will not give up easily.

    We do know that we must keep DataStreme going as long as possible while we seek support. We therefore made the decision to reduce the level at which DataStreme operates in Spring 2001 with the hope the residual funds remaining in the DataStreme NSF grant can be stretched into the Fall 2001 semester (assuming we can get NSF approval for a second extension).

    Asking many LITs not to run or to run at a reduced level in Spring 2001 has been a difficult process for us at DataStreme Central. It has been heartening to us that a number of LITs have found local support or have otherwise offered cost-cutting proposals to keep going. But, the bottom line is that we have had to make cuts. We hope you understand.

    We are working hard to find that support that will keep DataStreme going. We will keep you informed as we proceed. We thank you for your tremendous contributions to DataStreme. Long live DataStreme!

  4. We encourage use of the DataStreme Junction page by course alumni in their roles as resource teachers (and certainly yourselves). However, we recommend potential participants and general inquiries about DataStreme be directed to the original DataStreme Homepage as that contains application and contact information about the Project and course.

  5. For those LITs who will be operating this coming Spring 2001 term, DataStreme learning files will begin transmission again with Preview Week. Until Preview Week, the DataStreme Homepage will contain a link to a current weather discussion and sample DataStreme files. Meteorological products will of course be updated through the holiday break.

    Spring 2001 Weekly Schedule: The dates shown are the Monday of the given week.

    DataStreme Course Meeting Dates: The dates shown below are the suggested windows for course meetings. The dates coincide with course materials.


  6. If you have not already done so, LIT members are requested to complete and submit the LIT Evaluation - Web version or text version to DataStreme Central.

  7. Along with our gratitude for your efforts this semester, we wish all the joy and happiness of the holiday season.

Thank you!


WEEK 12 ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. 119 km per hour (74 miles per hour)
  2. counterclockwise
  3. smaller
  4. hurricanes
  5. significant Coriolis effect
  6. August
  7. flooding
  8. high
  9. right
  10. decreases, . . toward
  11. higher
  12. evacuation
  13. - 15. [as appropriate by participant]

B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. storm surge
2. normal lunar tides
Thursday:
1. is (map shows all NWS offices with links to homepages)
2. is - . . . this is an important reference for teachers

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 12A:

  1. See Key image 1
  2. 340 n. mi., 14 n. mi. per hr., 7 n. mi. per hr., later
  3. position 3
  4. Gulfport, . . 27 hours, . . is
  5. no, . . northern Florida
  6. a different, . . slowed down
  7. no answer needed (plot on map)
  8. Mobile, . . strengthened, . . 3, . . strong
  9. decreasing, . . 3 hrs, . . Gulfport
  10. decreased, . . rose
  11. east
  12. winding, . . did not
  13. northeast
  14. heavy rainfalls
  15. were, . . heavy rainfalls
  16. Floyd

ACTIVITY 12B:

  1. no answer needed
  2. type - rain/mixed/snow
  3. twenty-six
  4. red

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