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Extreme-Weather Broadcast Center

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Grades 9-1290 minSource: Creative Dad Company

Teens run a mock weather broadcast desk, translating real live or recent weather datasets into clear public guidance during a simulated severe-weather event. It's meteorology and communication under real time pressure.

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Prep: 10 minActivity: 30 min1 session~$2/groupOne table for the Extreme-Weather Broadcast Center evidence and prototypeBeginner-friendly

Setup

Print or handwrite the four Extreme-Weather Broadcast Center challenge steps and place common paper supplies on one table. Prepare one small sample, dataset, scenario, or recycled-material model drawn directly from the project description; no device, paid tool, room decoration, or purchased kit is required.

Activity

  1. Read the Extreme-Weather Broadcast Center challenge aloud, then review a real or recent severe-weather dataset and predict what the public most needs to know in the first alert.
  2. Use paper, index cards, recycled objects, or facilitator-provided sample data to build a broadcast script and simple graphics translating the raw data into clear, plain-language guidance.
  3. Run one tabletop trial and get a live data update mid-broadcast that changes the forecast and adjust the guidance on air without causing panic.
  4. Finish by deliver the final mock broadcast to an audience and take questions afterward like a real press briefing; record the evidence that supports the decision.

Done when: The group completes a defensible Extreme-Weather Broadcast Center solution, records at least one test result or comparison, changes one claim or design in response, and supports its final decision with that evidence.

Materials

printed weather data, poster board, markers, stopwatch, phone for filming

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Steps

  1. Review a real or recent severe-weather dataset and predict what the public most needs to know in the first alert.
  2. Build a broadcast script and simple graphics translating the raw data into clear, plain-language guidance.
  3. Get a live data update mid-broadcast that changes the forecast and adjust the guidance on air without causing panic.
  4. Deliver the final mock broadcast to an audience and take questions afterward like a real press briefing.