NECC Session: Integrating Real-World Data in Classrooms

Monday, June 25, 2007

Notes from
NECC 2007
Integrating Real-World Data in Classrooms
Liesl Hotaling, Stevens Institute of Technology with Greg Bartus




Monday, 6/25/2007, 8:30am–9:30am;
Handout:
CIESE: Integrating Real-World Data in Classrooms


http://www.ciese.org/currichome.html
Collaborative projects include finding circumference of the earth; need collaboration to highlight points for real data;
Run these twice a year

Real time data is data happening right now, eg weather, air quality, ocean, ; use webcams, monitor news
showed example of national weather temperature today;
eg time site shows daylight on the earth
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java
can calculate roughly number of hours per day with width of shadow

Example of a math story problem of time ship takes to go somewhere;better if use noaa hurricane tracking for students to solve prlbem
Stowaway adventure on handout

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