Topic 23 Weather over a season, and far away — what needs James (0)
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Question types (11)
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Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 1 · bank item PP-1 · tests SR3-012
EasyMCQType 1 — which bar is the tallest (the warmest day)
drawing pp_temp_week_kansas
Look at the bar graph. Which day was the warmest?
- a) Monday
- b) Wednesday ← key
- c) Thursday
- d) Friday
Why it is this type: A taller bar means a bigger number. / Wednesday's bar is the tallest, landing on 95. / So Wednesday was the warmest.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 3 · bank item PP-2 · tests EAR3-022
EasyMCQType 3 — how tall a named month's bar is, from the records table
drawing pp_table_fall_juneau
A bar graph is made from this table. How tall is November's bar?
- a) up to the 6 ← key
- b) up to the 8
- c) up to the 9
- d) up to the 10
Why it is this type: Find November in the table. / The table says November had 6 sunny days. / So November's bar goes up to the 6.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 7 · bank item PP-3 · tests EAR3-021
EasyMCQType 7 — which of three places is the warmest on one day
drawing pp_rep_three
The weather report shows September 9 in the morning in three places. Which place is the warmest?
- a) Duluth
- b) Memphis
- c) Orlando ← key
- d) They are all the same.
Why it is this type: Read the Temperature (°F) column for all three. / 58, 86 and 88. / 88 is the biggest number. / So Orlando is the warmest.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 9 · bank item PP-4 · tests EAR3-024
EasyMCQType 9 — which words describe a faraway place's typical weather
drawing pp_card_namib
The card shows what a class found out about the Namib, in Africa. Which words describe its typical weather?
- a) hot and rainy
- b) cold and dry
- c) warm and dry ← key
- d) cool and rainy
Why it is this type: The card says about 70 °F in the morning in July: warm, not cold. / It says about 2 rainy days a year: very dry. / So the Namib's typical weather is warm and dry.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 4 · bank item PP-5 · tests EAR3-022 SR3-012
MediumMCQType 4 — a table's numbers are stated; which bar is drawn wrong
drawing pp_fall_juneau_wrong
A table said September 9, October 8, November 6 sunny days. Which bar is drawn wrong?
- a) September
- b) October ← key
- c) November
- d) None of them
Why it is this type: Each bar goes up to its number in the table. / September's lands on 9 and November's on 6, as the table says. / October's lands on 5, but the table says 8. / So October's bar is drawn wrong.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 5 · bank item PP-6 · tests EAR3-023
MediumMCQType 5 — three years of one month: what is next year's month likely to be like · PP-6
drawing pp_decembers_snow
The graph shows the snowy days in December, three years in a row, in Burlington. What is next December there likely to be like?
- a) snowy on many days ← key
- b) no snow at all
- c) rainy on most days
- d) You cannot tell yet.
Why it is this type: Every December had 14, 15 or 16 snowy days, about half the month. / The same thing happened three years in a row. / So next December is likely to be snowy on many days.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 5 · bank item PP-7 · tests EAR3-023
MediumMCQType 5, second form — three years of one month: what is next year's month likely to be like · PP-7
drawing pp_one_year_rain (ONE bar)
The graph shows the rainy days in June, one year only, in Boise. What is next June there likely to be like?
- a) hardly any rain
- b) rainy on most days
- c) snowy on most days
- d) You cannot tell yet. ← key
Why it is this type: Medium because: the student must notice that the record is one year long before answering; a student who reads the one short bar as a pattern picks "hardly any rain".
The why line (what a student reads after answering): A pattern is a part that happens again in the same way. / One June has not happened again yet. / Once is not again. / So nobody can tell yet what next June is likely to be like.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 8 · bank item PP-8 · tests EAR3-021
MediumMCQType 8 — two columns read for two places: which sentence is true of the two places
drawing pp_rep_two
The weather report shows January 20 in the morning in two places. Which sentence is true of the two places?
- a) Milwaukee is both warmer and wetter.
- b) San Antonio is both warmer and wetter. ← key
- c) Milwaukee is warmer, and San Antonio is wetter.
- d) San Antonio is warmer, and Milwaukee is wetter.
Why it is this type: Read the Temperature (°F) column: 64 is bigger than 22, so San Antonio is warmer. / Read the Rain (mm) column: 12 is more than 0, so San Antonio is wetter. / So San Antonio is both warmer and wetter.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 2 · bank item PP-9 · tests SR3-012
HardtypedType 2 — how many more rainy days one month had than another: read two bars, find the difference, type the number
numeric entry · drawing pp_rain_fall_diff
Look at the graph. How many more rainy days did October have than September? Type the number.
Accepted answers (typed): acc_days(6) — 6 · 6 days · 6 rainy days · 6 more · 6 more days
Why it is this type: October's bar lands on 9. / September's bar lands on 3. / 9 take away 3 is 6. / So October had 6 more rainy days than September.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 6 · bank item PP-10 · tests EAR3-023 SR3-012
HardtypedType 6 — twelve months of usual rainy days (ten years of records): which month is likely to have the fewest next year
text entry · drawing pp_year_rain_pp · closed (29 Sep: the month is one of the twelve labels on the item's own graph)
The graph shows the usual rainy days in each month, from ten years of records in Richmond. Which month is likely to have the fewest rainy days next year? Type the month.
Accepted answers (typed): July · Jul
Why it is this type: The graph shows what is usual year after year. / The shortest bar is the month with the fewest rainy days. / July's bar is the shortest, landing on 2. / So July is likely to have the fewest rainy days next year.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
Topic 23 · Weather over a season, and far away · Type 10 · bank item PP-11 · tests EAR3-024 EAR3-021
HardtypedType 10 — three faraway places' information: in which place does it rain on the most days
text entry · drawing pp_three_cards · closed (29 Sep: the place is one of the three named rows on the item's own table)
The table gives information about three faraway places. Type the name of the place where it rains on the most days.
Accepted answers (typed): Borneo · the island of Borneo
Why it is this type: Read the rainy-days column for all three. / About 30, about 30 and about 210. / 210 is the biggest number. / So Borneo has rain on the most days.
Recommendation: Approve as the exemplar
The lessons (5)
Each lesson in teaching order: its one-line summary, the article, the script and the quiz, then your ruling.
Topic 23 · Lesson 1
Lesson 1 Read a bar graph
the class's week of morning temperatures as orange bars; find the top, follow it across, read the number; Wednesday lands between 70 and 80, so each line is worth 5 (Topic 17's step, recalled) and it was 75 °F; the fall rainy-days graph; how many more; a picture graph of sunny days. Quiz: eight typed reads on fresh towns, one typed difference, three tallest / shortest, one picture count, the term last. The graph's axis is "the numbers up the side", never "the scale" (Topic 17 gave that word to the mass tool — say if you want "axis" now).
Topic 23 · Lesson 2
Lesson 2 Make a graph of a season
the class weather table's rainy-day count for spring (a rainy day: the gauge read more than 0 mm) → the labels → one bar for each month, up to its number → the whole spring at a glance, April the most. The platform cannot take a drawing, so the checks ask the steps: what goes along the bottom, how tall a bar is (typed), which bar is drawn wrong, and that a graph with no numbers cannot be read — "each line could be worth 1, or 2, or 10".
Topic 23 · Lesson 3
Lesson 3 What is next July likely to be like?
Yasmin packs for Phoenix; Elio's class weather table for three Julys: 2, 3, 1 rainy days and 28, 30, 26 hot days; the same every year is a pattern, and a pattern lets you say what happens next (Topic 1's rule, recalled); so next July is likely to be hot and dry; "typical weather" coined; the records say most days, not one day; one year is not a pattern. "Climate" is never said — Grade 4 coins it (say if you want it here).
Topic 23 · Lesson 4
Lesson 4 Two places, the same day — DELETED 30 Sep (your call); now practice items and bank types 7–8
the video call, snow behind Yasmin at 30 °F and sun behind Elio at 80 °F; the weather report is the class weather table for more than one place; read the same column for both: 80 is bigger than 30 (warmer), 12 mm is more than 0 (wetter), windy is more wind than calm (windier; calm, breezy, windy said once); Seattle and Miami; Columbus and Denver at 60 and 60 (neither).
Topic 23 · Lesson 5
Lesson 5 What is the weather usually like far away? — DELETED 30 Sep (your call); now practice items and bank types 9–10
the class's map (drawn); the Sahara, Antarctica and the Amazon from information cards (usual July morning temperature; rainy days in a whole year) → hot and dry, very cold and snowy, hot and rainy; January in Columbus and January in the Sahara, described, never explained.
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