Intended for experimental study, natural sciences and geography laboratory, and carrying out experiments on: Meteorology. Spatial geometry. Determination of the volume of water precipitated on a surface. The importance of precipitation in the water cycle and environmental balance. What is meant by rain gauge. Measuring the perimeter of the school courtyard. Determining the area of the school courtyard. Collection of precipitation data. Relationship between rainfall depth and precipitated volume. Conversion of rainfall depth into volume. Analysis of the results. Graphical representation of precipitation, constructing a hyetogram. Determining the area of the rain gauge collection chamber..Determining the volume of rain precipitated in the rain gauge. What is meant by hyetogram. Obtaining graphs. Statistics. Statistical analysis of local precipitation data. Performing statistical analysis of local precipitation. Arithmetic mean. Determining the arithmetic mean of precipitation data. Mode. Frequency. Determining the mode of precipitation data. Median. Determining the median of precipitation. Determining the median for sets with an odd number of data points. Determining the median for sets with an even number of data points. Sample variance. Determining the variance of the measured data. Standard deviation of the sample. Determining the standard deviation of the sample. Obtaining graphs. Observation and recording of data. Analysis of the mean. Analysis of the mode. Analysis of the median. Data variability. Environmental interpretation of the results. Comparing precipitation data at school with data from official meteorological stations. Coordinated Universal Time, UTC. Converting local time to UTC. Relationship between rainfall depth and precipitated volume. What is meant by hyetogram. Obtaining graphs from a local rain gauge. Comparing precipitation data obtained with data from official meteorological stations. Determining the accumulated precipitation of data from official meteorological stations. Obtaining graphs from local rain gauges and nearby official meteorological stations, etc.
Natural sciences. Geography. Meteorology. Mathematics. Spatial geometry. Statistics.