Curriculum Book One: Investigating Historical Weather Data and its Sociocultural Impacts


Welcome to the first official Curriculum Book, Investigating Historical Weather Data and its Sociocultural Impacts. Funded by a Saltise Mini-Grant Award, the curriculum was developed by Drew Bush, Geoffrey Pearce, and Victoria Slonosky.



On the Curriculum:

Our curriculum furthers students' understanding of weather, climate, and their related social impacts. We integrate the Data Rescue: Archives and Weather (DRAW) website with student research assignments. The curriculum thus engages students with hands-on experience in data analysis using the data they rescued using the website and links this data to cultural and scientific aspects of Montreal's heritage.

The curriculum was first piloted and evaluated in CEGEP Dawson College's first year Social Science Research Methods course in March and April 2018. The three week curriculum focused on introducing students to citizen science generally, citizen science in environment and climate based fields, and finally the importance of the transcription of historical weather data.


For more on the Saltise grant, click here


Course Materials


Curriculum Booklet

The colour coded booklet describes a three week course module and includes:

  • Learning and Teaching outcomes, strategies, and implementation
  • Daily class outlines
  • Assessments, including a research assignment and exam questions
  • Sample topics for assignments
  • Resources, including handouts, texts, citations, and images

To access the document to download/print, please select the symbol in the top right hand corner to pop-out the pdf. Note: this booklet has been formatted for printing.


Course Slides

Class 1: Citizen Science and Historical Climate

Class 2: Working with DRAW

Class 3: Climate and Society

Class 4: Google Earth and Weather Data


Course Notes

Class 1: Citizen Science and Historical Climate

Class 2: Working with DRAW

Class 3: Climate and Society

Class 4: Google Earth and Weather Data