Blizzard Attack: Assignment

Your Assignment
How far will you drive?

You are about to drive through a major winter storm. Your mission is to travel safely through the storm. You will rely on weather updates from local radio and your special notebook-computer called WeatherPad. Your goals are:

Stay safe.
Reach your destination

At the end of your journey, you will be asked to write an essay. You will be asked to defend the decisions you make during your trip! Your "grade" for this exercise will be determined by how your journey ends up and how you could have improved upon your results.

Take a new identity
You will make the trip as someone else! We are about to assign you a new identity. Your objective is to stay safe or get to your destination safely given your newly chosen identity. You will need to make your decisions based on that person's age, experience, destination, and mode of transportation.

You are in command and are responsible for your decisions. Your "grade" for this exercise will be determined by how your journey ends up and how you could have improved upon your results.

Skills
This lesson will challenge you to:

Analyze information presented to you in several forms.

Understand winter storm terms and weather information.

Make good decisions.

Use your writing skills.

While traveling in a car, we have to make many choices, decisions that help us make a safe trip. There are also consequences for making uninformed or poor decisions.

We are counting on you to stay safe! Don’t let us down!

Next: Sources of Weather Information

Blizzard Attack Main Page WeatherEye Expert Main Page

WeatherEye is a public service of KGAN and is
sponsored by Central Iowa Power Cooperative (CIPCO).
Click on Louie the Lightning Bug for electrical
safety information and the Electric Universe.