Engagement:
The web, spreadsheets and Inspiration software allow the students to investigate hurricanes and show their findings, the students are also working in cooperative groups with purposeful partnering and co-engagement in the software. This allows for reflection on what they are learning, as well as opportunities to co-construct knowledge together. The software focused on the task at hand (no major bells and whistles to distract the students from the learning goals).
Enhancement:
Excel allowed students to display data (and use various formulas to analyze the data) and come up with evidence, the web-research allowed the students to come up with data and evidence. This would be more difficult to do without the technology tools.
Extension:
The teacher selected a real world problem (local and recent hurricanes that impact their lives), as well as teaching them how to analyze real data and solve a problem.
Total Score=15/18