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Download full textKohler, Fred – 1983
Precipitation data for Macomb (Illinois) for the period 1912-1981 were the bases for developing classroom exercises that offered college students experience in collecting such data. After students collected the data, they reduced them to manageable proportions, and then examined average long-term relations which may have emerged among yearly,…
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Peer reviewedPalmer, Alfred C. – Science Teacher, 1986
Describes an activity for determining how long and when a tree lived by comparing its ring sizes with local precipitation records. Suggests benefits for this type of dendrochronology activity. (TW)
Descriptors: Climate, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
