Brainwave 3

Bournda Weather

Most NSW Country Areas Program students live in inland areas of NSW which can be very hot. What is the temperature like in coastal NSW?

The Bournda Environmental Education Centre, on the Far South Coast of NSW, has a weather station that measures the local weather and uploads the data to their website every 15 minutes.

You can see this data at Current Weather at Bournda Environmental Education Centre.

Your task is to go to the site each school day from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 11th March and read the Outside Temperature graph to find the maximum and minimum temperatures for each day as well as what time each occurred.

Record at least five days of data and graph the temperature information.

What did you find out about the temperature at Bournda?

If you miss a day click the This month's weather link near the bottom of the page.

How do these temperatures compare to your area?

You can find the temperatures for your area for the same days by:
1. Going to the Weatherzone site
2. Entering the local postcode
3. Choosing a location
4. Clicking This Month

Your task is to make a graph of the Bournda data and a graph of your local data.

Use the site Create A Graph to construct your graphs.

Feature Solution

The feature solution for the problem came from Michael and Alex from Tottenham CS.

	What did you have to find out? We had to find out what the maximum and the minimum tempertures were for Bournda and Tottenham. After we found out the tempertures we had to put them into a table and then make a graph. What materials did you use? The materials I used were a computer, pencil, we created a graph and we also used a thumbdrive so that I could get my graph off the computer. How did you think? What strategies did you use? How did you solve this problem? I then printed my graph off the computer so that I could submit my answers to you. I then used my graph to compare my final rusults of Bournda & Tottenham. What answers did you come up with? I found out: - Tottenham had the hottest week out of Bournda and Tottenham. Tottenham had the hottest day at 34.7 degrees. Tottenham also had the coldest day of the week which was 9.5. The next day also had a minimum temperature of 9.5 Tottenham's range between their highest and lowest temerpature was generally the greatest. Alex Michael
	Commendable contributors to the problem were: Braydon from St Johns Cobar Georgia & Inge from Candelo PS
	Solutions were also sent in by: Sakshi-Sonam; Tamara, Blake & Andrew from St Johns Cobar Melissa; Rhett; Bethany from St Peters Anglican Primary School Gabi & Tiarna; Josh & Jack; Zeb & Patrick; Jack & Hamish; Connor & Louis; Shianna & Kayla; Bailey & Kieran; Ellie & Sophie from Kempsey East PS Alison, Adeline & Maddy; Sarah & Andrea from St Michaels Collegiate Nader, Marc & Amit from Carlton PS