DIRECTIONS:Use the Groundhog Day Predictions chart at http://www.groundhog.org/history/predictions.shtml on the Internet to answer each of these questions. 1. Did Punxsutawney Phil see his shadow in 1997? ________ 2. At what time did Phil see his shadow in 1996? ___________ 3. Look at the results of Punxsutawney Phil's predictions for the last ten years. How many times in the last ten years did Phil see his shadow? ________ 4. Find 1951 on the chart. Starting in 1951, how many years in a row did Phil see his shadow? __________ 5. What was the temperature on Groundhog Day 1971? _____________ 6. How many times in the 1980s did Phil see no shadow? ___ 7. In which year -- 1948, 1949, or 1950 -- did Phil see no shadow? ____________ 8. Did Phil see his shadow at 7:29 a.m. in 1980 or 1981? ____________ 9. In which years in the 1970s did Phil see no shadow? ______ _______ 10. How many times in the 1960s did Phil see no shadow? ____________ © 1998 by Education World. Permission is granted to teachers to reproduce this skill page for classroom use. |
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