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Twister: The Tornado Story
Students examine dangerous weather by researching tornadoes. In this extreme weather activity, students identify the states included in Tornado Alley. Students create a virtual tornado using 2 plastic bottles.
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Cloudy With a Chance of...
Second graders will write a story. In this writing and meteorology activity, 2nd graders read the story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, then use KidPix to create a weather picture. The picture is imported into a word processor and the...
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Learning Lesson: Atmospheric Collisions
Students participate in a demonstration showing how rain drops grow by coalescence. They use ping pong balls and put them in an air stream. They end the lesson discussing flash flood safety.
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The Air Up There
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the average daily weather patterns. They collect data over a five day period and then write a summary of the observations made from it. Students record the mean and graph it on a simple...
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Climate Shifts
Eight slides of information related to shifts in the climate make up this presentation. The vocabulary and concepts displayed are geared toward high school meteorology learners. Content is not cohesive from slide to slide, but the...
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Gallery Walk Questions on Earth's Radiation Balance
Questions that can be used in a lesson on Earth's radiation balance are suggested in this resource. It is not a lesson plan, per se, but it is a list of questions for stations within a "Gallery Walk" lesson. The link to how Gallery Walks...
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Evidence of Change Near the Arctic Circle
Learners analyze graphs and make conclusions about climate change. In this climates lesson students produce graphs and identify relationships between parameters.
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(S-1A) Weather and the Atmosphere
Learners discuss the way vertical convection transports heat from the surface upwards, and associated pressure and temperature profiles of the atmosphere.
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Weather Prediction
In this weather worksheet, learners review vocabulary words and concepts associated with predicting the weather. Students understand what a meteorologist studies. This worksheet has 7 matching, 10 fill in the blank, and 5 short answer...
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Weather Watchers
Students study basic meteorology concepts. They build a simple barometer to measure air pressure. They explore the concepts of relative humidity, air convection currents and temperature inversions and to discover their connection to...
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Earth Science - Weather
Pupils build an understanding of the dynamics and composition of the atmosphere and its local and global processes influencing climate and air quality. They analyze air masses and the life cycle of weather systems.
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Weather
In this weather worksheet, students review what causes different weather patterns including the more severe weather patterns like tornadoes and hurricanes. Students also calculate relative humidity by using dry and wet bulb temperatures....
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Weather
In this weather worksheet, students will match 4 weather terms to their correct definition. Vocabulary words include wind, weather, air mass, and front. Then students will complete 3 short answer questions based on high and low air...
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Weather Forecasting Basics
Eighth graders analyze weather diagrams and weather maps. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders explain why it is important to know the weather. They complete a handout at the end of the lesson.
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Integrating Mathematical Concepts in the Study of the Atmosphere and the Ocean
Students utilize problem solving strategies that emphasis writing in mathematics, and strategies that have students make decisions and draw conclusions. They connect math to weather and climate topics.
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Severe Weather Planning
Fourth graders research the need to prepared for a severe weather event. They select one type of weather condition and explain how to be prepared in a report.
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Weather Elements and Instruments
Eighth graders identify the different weather elements. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders explain the difference between relative humidity and dew point. They discuss the different instruments used to predict weather.
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Investigation 7 - Interpreting Weather Data
Fourth graders interpret the weather data they gathered in Investigation 6. They take an average of each component in each season. They compare the same components of each season and write the differences they see between the seasons.
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WEATHER SATELLITE PREDICTION PROJECT
Students compile weather satellite data from three satellites for one month, obtain weather reports and data from professionals, then create a document with predicted results.
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Weather "Toons
Student use a variety of resources including print, CD-Rom and Internet information to study a weather process. They design a weather cartoon citing the bibliographic sources from their research.
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Identifying the Relationship Between Black Carbon and the Weather
Students identify the relationship between black carbon and the weather. In this investigative lesson students compare samples of black carbon with a color-scale and analyze others samples.
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Weather Patterns
Students use yearly averages over a five-year period to understand weather trends for a specific area.
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Too Heavy For Me
Students explore the different arrangement of air molecules in high and low air pressure masses. They compare the temperature of high and low pressure masses and discover how a barometer works.
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Climate Change Around the World
It is unknown if cloud cover increases in response to carbon dioxide levels changing, helping climate change slow down, or if cloud cover decreases, allowing Earth to warm faster. Part four in the series of five lessons has classes...