Learning Can be Easy for Teachers Too!
Learn more about Onsite Training and the WeatherBug Training Team
The training required for most education technology costs money and time and often does not cover teacher development, i.e., how to efficiently use the technology and correlate it to the classroom environment. With regular staff turnover and reassignments, training can become a major expense category that prevents many schools from pursuing new technologies.
WeatherBug Achieve comes with training modules that can be accessed whenever and wherever it is most convenient for teachers - at home, at school, before class starts or in the evening. The web-based training modules are divided into easy-to-learn topics that last no more than 15 minutes each and can be viewed on any computer with an Internet connection as many times as needed!
The At Your Convenience (AYC) Training includes 17 modules that last from 5 to 15 minutes each. Here are some of the topics available:
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| Module 1: | How Your Weather Data Gets To WeatherBug Achieve Outdoor/Indoor Equipment Troubleshooting |
10 minutes |
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| Module 2: | Accessing WeatherBug Achieve School Key Code/Subscription Teacher Login Student Access |
5+ minutes |
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| Module 3: | The WeatherBug Achieve Main Page Layout Quality Check Overview of Materials Included |
5+ minutes |
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| Module 4: | Accessing Your Weather Observations Overview of 5 tabs (Using and Archiving) Daily Graph and Parameter Interaction |
10 minutes |
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| Module 5: | Using WeatherBug Camera Images to Make Connections Overview of Using Camera Images Camera and Graph Together |
10 minutes |
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| Module 6: | Using Map Gallery & Weather Maps in the Classroom Drilling Down into Regions - How Topography Impacts Weather Comparison of Two Weather Maps |
10 minutes |
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| Module 7: | WeatherBug Achieve Lessons & Projects Overview of Lessons Review of Middle School Lesson Layout and Important Features Suggestions on Use Overview of Project (differences between Teacher/Student) |
10 minutes |
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| Module 8: | Weather Summaries Analyzing Local and National Data Table Suggested uses or activities |
5 minutes |
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| Module 9: | Meteorology Match Game Sample Game How to use it as a WNC navigational tool |
5 minutes |
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| Module 10: | Using Extreme Weather Table How to use it as a springboard for research |
5 minutes |
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| Module 11: | Powers of StormDisplay Overview of Local Map Overview of National Map |
5 minutes |
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| Module 12: | Change WeatherBug Tracking Stations Point Achieve to a weather station where weather is happening Return home |
5 minutes |
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| Module 13: | Library Resources Archives, HurricaneNet, and Glossaries |
10 minutes |
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| Module 14: | Archiving Articles, Images, and Data from WeatherBug Achieve Cut/Paste Functionality Adding questions to articles in Word |
5 minutes |
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| Module 15: | Manipulating Data Tables in a Spreadsheet Cut/Paste data table into Excel and save Average/Mean/Mode/Median Deleting Columns & Pasting into Word for lesson creation |
10 minutes |
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| Module 16: | Creating Graphs from Data Tables in a Spreadsheet Using Chart Wizard functionality in Excel to create graph Cut/Paste into Word for lesson creation |
10 minutes |
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| Module 17: | Saving Time-Lapses as a Presentation Using Custom Animation functionality |
10 minutes |
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Onsite Training
WeatherBug Schools will also bring our training program to your school and staff in a one-day, hands-on, in-person training program.
One of our professional trainers will come to your school and work with the staff to get the teachers and the program up and running. They will present and review applications like mapping and graphing, camera images, live and historical data and the interactive lessons. They will also discuss using information collected by other schools, the measurements taken by the weather station and demonstrate ways to use standard software programs, such as Excel or PowerPoint, to utilize the data and develop additional classroom lessons.
WeatherBug Schools Training Team = Certified Experience
WeatherBug School's Professional Development trainers are certified educators with over 40 years of educational and professional training experience between them.
Online or onsite training can be arranged to meet your school's individual needs. For more information, please contact the training department at training@weatherbug.com or
1-800-544-4429, ext. 1721.
