SCENARIO:

Your father, a schoolteacher, has been offered a transfer to a country town.
Your family are all keen golfers and tennis players so you need to decide which town has the best weather conditions in order for you to play all year round.
He has four choices :- Tibooburra, Warialda, Tyalgum and Thredbo.

TASK:

POINTS TO CONSIDER:

• Temperature - mean, maximum and minimum temperatures
  (click here to find out what these words mean.)
• Rainfall
• Is there any history of past disasters eg. floods, severe storms, wind, bushfires, earthquakes etc.?

WHERE DO I FIND THE INFORMATION?

Weather Records: Click on each town on the map below to find the weather information.

Record your results on the summary sheet.
Download the Word document and print it out,or print out this summary sheet.

PAST DISASTERS: -	Use your Library
	http://australianweathernews.com
	http://weatherzone.com.au/misc/climate.jsp
	www.bom.gov.au
	http://home.iprimus.com.au/ozthunder/oz/nsw.html

WHAT DO I DO WITH THE INFORMATION / PRESENTATION?

• Complete summary sheet.
• Construct a bar graph of temperature and rainfall of your chosen town. (Compute-A-Graph, ClarisWorks Office, MS Works or Excel might be useful.)
• Prepare and present an oral exposition stating why you have chosen this town.

TEACHER ASSESSMENT:

Summary sheet will be cited by teacher.
Oral exposition will be marked.

 CLASS ASSESSMENT:

Class will also comment on oral presentation and how persuasive the the presenter was.

SELF ASSESSMENT:

• What did you find most interersting about your research?
• What would you change?
• Were there any problems?
• What did you do well?