About Teaching Boxes

The Pi-WRF teaching box project aims to improve Earth science education. The project makes use of the Pi-WRF software, which allows Raspberry Pi users to run a real weather model, including weather forecasting. This section of the project’s webpage contains teaching boxes, which are starting points for the development of Pi-WRF teaching modules. These teaching boxes are created by a community made up of students, teachers, university faculty, and NCAR staff. Pi-WRF teaching boxes and modules can transform a relatively small location, such as a desktop, into a gateway to learning advanced weather modeling concepts. With Pi-WRF, you can make a weather forecast that you have total control over, including time, location, and how to visualize the output. Pi-WRF teaching boxes and modules are also an excellent learning tool. One of the key concepts that Pi-WRF can teach is the sequence of steps involved in running a weather model; this includes interpreting weather maps and quantifying accuracy of weather forecasts.