Task:

For five consecutive school days, you will compare the weather in an Hispanic city with the weather in Philadelphia. You will accomplish this by consulting two web sites

http://cnnenespanol.com

http://weather.com

and finding the weather for each of the five days and entering your data in Spanish on the chart accompaning this project.

Process:

1. Go to the Chart page.
2. You will save the chart as a source document on your server account. To accomplish this task while in Netscape, go to "File" and select "Save Page." Make sure you change the "File Type to Source," put your first name in front of the name chart, eg. Mary Chart, find your server account, by using the "Desktop" button and select "Save."
3. Using the resources given above, find the weather in an Hispanic city and the weather in Phildelphia. Hint: From the index on the left of the website, select the weather category.
4. To add your entries each day, you will open the saved "chart" file in Page Mill. Make sure your name is entered on the chart, and save your work each day to your server account.
5. At the end of five consecutive school days, you will save your document a final time, then send it to your teacher through e-mail as an ATTACHMENT .
6. To send an attached document intitate a new e-mail message, address it to dmers@ga.k12.pa.us, subject should be Chart from "Your Name", e.g. Chart from Mary, then go to Message on menu bar, select and hold, scroll down and select 'Attach Docmument," an open dialogue box will appear. Find your way to your server account and the chart document, with the temperatures you collected, "Select" it and Hit "Open." The name of the document will appear on your email message. Now hit "Send."
   

Time line:

Period A

Dec. 14 Meet in MSCALC for an introduction to project.

Jan 4 to Jan. 8 - work independently to collect data

Jan. 8 - send your chart as an attachment through e-mail to Mrs. Mersky (dmers@ga.k12.pa.us)

Conclusion:

Through this mini-project, you will learn additional vocabulary terms as you read and write in Spanish. You will be able to make a relative comparison between the weather in a particular region of the Spanish speaking world with the weather where you live. You will have an introduction to weather and news source in Spanish. You will gain experience using NetScape and multitasking betweeen Page Mill and NetScape to gather your information. Finally, you will learn how to send an attachment through your e-mail.

This project designed by Debbie Mersky, Spanish Teacher for Germantown Academy Middle School. With technical assistance from Carol Siwinski, Curricular Technology Specialist.

December 6, 1998