Weather Activities

Over the next two days you will complete several weather activities on the Internet and Microsoft Office Word.

1. Open your documents folder and create a new folder and title it Weather.
2. Open Microsoft Office Word

Pressure
1. Name this document Pressure and save it into a folder labeled Weather in your documents folder.
2. Go the website http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/prs.rxml and complete the activities.
3. Copy and paste each question one at a time and answer the questions.
4. Check your answers with the Teacher’s Guide. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/tg/prs.rxml. Correct when necessary.

Air Masses
1. Open a new document in Microsoft Word and name this document Air Masses. Save this document into your Weather folder in your documents.
2. Go to the website http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/arms.rxml and complete the activities.
3. Copy and paste each question one at a time and answer the questions.
4. Check your answers with the Teacher’s Guide. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/tg/arms.rxml Correct when necessary.

Mid Latitude Cyclones
1. Open a new document in Microsoft Word and name this document Mid Latitude Cyclones. Save this document into your Weather folder in your documents.
2. Go to the website http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/cyc.rxml and complete the activities.
3. Copy and paste each question one at a time and answer the questions.
4. Check your answers with the Teacher’s Guide. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/tg/cyc.rxml Correct when necessary.

Forecasting Precipitation
1. Open a new document in Microsoft Word and name this document Forecasting Precipitation. Save this document into your Weather folder in your documents.
2. Go to the website http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/fprcp.rxml and complete the activities.
3. Copy and paste each question one at a time and answer the questions.
4. Check your answers with the Teacher’s Guide. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/tg/fprcp.rxml Correct when necessary.


Tricks for Microsoft Office Word
Copying an image into Word – Right click on the image, copy image, paste image into word.

Drawing Tools in Microsoft Office – View – Toolbars – drawing

After you create textboxes or lines bring them in front of the text – Right click – Arrange in front of text

Resize text boxes before bring them in front of text.