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Draw a large venn diagram that displays weather and climate. Record ideas. 3-Begin by focusing on temperature by collecting temperature data for one month in the last year ( HYPERLINK "http://www.wunderground" www.wunderground). Graph each days high, low and average temperature.( ( ( Assign paired students to each of 12 months so that class will have a year s worth of data. 4-( After a month s weather data is graphed and shared, ask students how we would know if it is typical or not. This discussion can lead to climate. Direct students to  HYPERLINK "http://www.globe.gov" www.globe.gov to superimpose on their graph climate data for our location which has been averaged over time. 5-Compare the weather graphs with the climate graphs to further explore the distinctions between weather and climate. Emphasize that we only focused on one measure, temperature and talk about what we would do to include other data to better inform our work.( ( 6-Revisit venn diagram to sort out weather and climate distinctions and similarities. 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