Create a Climograph

Create a Climograph
Objective: Create a climograph for a United States city
1. Go to Mr. Elroy’s teacher page. Click on “Important Documents
and Web Pages” link. Click on the link under “Climographs.”
2. You may pick any city in any state
3. Make the climograph on drawing paper. Use your notes and
the practice sheet from when we took notes to help. You can
round the precipitation numbers to the nearest inch. However,
this will earn you a “3/meets” and not a “4/exceeding”
4. Make sure you are accurate, organized, and neat. Even
spacing of your numbers and months is important. Use color and
space well.
5. Use the rubric to make sure you have fulfilled all the
requirements.
Climograph Rubric
Criteria
4
3
Title
Climograph is titled
with correct U.S. city
and easy to find
Climograph is titled
with U.S. city
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Labels and
units
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Accuracy
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Presentation
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Average monthly
precipitation and
temperature (with
correct units)
clearly and
correctly labeled in
the right places
Months clearly and
correctly labeled in
the correct places
Bar and line graph
measure correct
part of weather
with no mistakes.
Does NOT round
precipitation
Numbering has no
mistakes
Space used well
Spacing is even
Color used well
Attractive
Easy to read
No pencil markings
All labels correct with
units
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Bar and line
graph measure
correct part of
weather with no
more than 3
mistakes.
CAN round
precipitation
numbers
Numbering has no
more than 3
mistakes
Did not meet one of
the requirements
2
1
No title
Missing one label or
unit
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Bar and line
graph measure
correct part of
weather with
more than 3
mistakes
CAN round
precipitation
Numbering has
more than 3
mistakes
Did not meet two of
the requirements
Missing multiple
labels or all
units
Bar and line
graph measure
wrong part of
weather
Did not meet
three of the
requirements
Climograph Checklist
_____ Go to Mr. Elroy’s teacher page. Click on “Important
Documents and Web Pages” link. Click on the link under
“Climographs.” Choose a city.
_____ Get a piece of drawing paper. Make the outline of your
climograph. Temperature goes up the right side. Precipitation
goes up the left side. Months go across the bottom. Make sure to
write the units. Use the WS of examples for help.
_____ Make a bar graph for the precipitation each month. Make
sure it matches up with the correct amount on the left side of
your climograph.
_____ Make a line graph for the temperature each month. Make
sure it matches up with the correct amount on the right side of
your climograph.
_____ Add color. Go over pencil markings with color, too.