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RainCatch – an online weather project for children aged 8-12 and individuals of any age
Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom
This poster presentation will provide details of the aims, objectives, requirements, resources, achievements and results of RainCatch, an online project which was run by the Royal Meteorological Society in October 2005. The project involved making a rain gauge from a plastic bottle and measuring and recording rainfall with this gauge for one week. It was intended for children aged 8-12 and for individuals of any age and was restricted to participants in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In schools, the project supported Design, Geography, Communication (oral English and Information Technology), Mathematics, Science and even economics and politics. Fortunately, the project coincided with a very wet week over most parts of the British Isles.
Poster Session 1, Poster Session
Tuesday, 4 July 2006, 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Millennium Room
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