2006 Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum | Abstracts

Arctic Weather

Heather Ploof¹, Hailey LaFave², Devon Artis-White^3
1Salisbury Community School, 642 Monument Hill Road, Castleton, VT, 05735, USA, aclapp@acsu.k12.vt.us
²Salisbury Community School, 642 Monument Hill Road, Castleton, VT, 05735, USA, aclapp@acsu.k12.vt.us
³Salisbury Community School, 642 Monument Hill Road, Castleton, VT, 05735, USA, aclapp@acsu.k12.vt.us

In the fall of 2005 Shannon Gmyrek introduced us to the weather station where collected data. For example we measured precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed (knots), snow fall, and temperature. What we used to collect weather data is a wind speed measurer on the weather station.


This poster presentation will explain what three 5th grade students from Salisbury Community School learned about weather and climate change in the Arctic. Their teacher, Amy Clapp, participated in Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating (TREC) in 2004 and 2005. These posters are part of a unit she taught in her classroom about the Arctic.