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A practical assessment task (PAT) mark is a compulsory component of the final promotion mark for all candidates offering subjects that have a practical component and counts 25% (100 marks) of the end-of-the-year examination mark. The PAT is implemented across the first three terms of the school year. This is broken down into different phases or a series of smaller activities that make up the PAT. The PAT allows for learners to be assessed on a regular basis during the school year and it also allows for the assessment of skills that cannot be assessed in a written format, e.g. test or examination. It is therefore important that schools ensure that all learners complete the practical assessment tasks within the stipulated period to ensure that learners are resulted at the end of the school year. The planning and execution of the PAT differs from subject to subject.
The 2023 PAT is a limited, climate analysis and tracking tool that also shows live weather data and a weather forecast as well as what a climate footprint is and what you can do to reduce it. The application also lets you use the WWF Environmental Footprint calculator and shows recent climate events across South Africa.
Images showing the various screens of the application, what they do and how they look.
- View current and forecasted weather for a specific location.
- View information about a Carbon Footprint and how to reduce yours.
- Calculate your Carbon Footprint using the WWF Environmental Footprint Calculator.
- View recent climate news.
- Manage the connection to the climate database.
- Change the database location.
- Manage the OpenAI API Key for the AI climate discussion.
- Restart the application.
- View up-to-date climate data, like annual average temperature and rainfall data for certain South African cities.
- View temperature and rainfall data in a graph and in a table.
- View the graphed climate trend for temperature and rainfall.
- Export/Print data and graphs.
- View information about a city.
- Read the OpenAI ChatGPT climate trend discussion.
- Query the database using SQL (Create, Read, Update and Delete).
- Export the query results.
- View activity within the system.
- Capture data for the database.
- View application license and developer information.
- View application version information.
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- The database name is
PATDB.mdband MUST be stored in the same working folder as the EXE. The EXE should be namedPAT-2023.exe. - The database stores information about places, cliamtes and news. The database also stores temperature and rainfall data. The structure of the database is as follows:
See the Wiki for more information.
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