Weather & Atmosphere Unit

WEATHER & ATMOSPHERE UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

• How does the composition and structure of the Earth’s atmospheric layers affect life on Earth?
  
• How do you think the shape and type of clouds affect weather conditions and weather patterns?
  
• Explain how solar energy is important to the water cycle.
  
• Why are direct observations and measurements useful in predicting weather?

Ultimate PowerPoint	Student Study Guide

*Thanks to Pam Lesley of F.M.S. for developing the PowerPoints and Study Guides.

* Thanks to Jeanette Johnson of F.M.S. for the vocabulary, some activities and many other materials. 

Quarter 3
Lesson Plans	Handouts (weekly vocabulary, worksheets, labs, etc)
Week 1	Directions to view your science book online (doc file) These are directions in order to read your science book online. There is also a sound button that you can click to have the science book read aloud to you!   Dear Me Letter (doc file) Dear Me Letter to be placed in an envelope and read at the end of the year. File Lab Safety Rules for F.M.S..doc (doc file) File Multiple Intelligence Survey.pdf (pdf file) File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data. Scientific Method: Graphing, Plotting & Charting File Scientific Method.pdf (pdf file) File Circle and Pie Graphs.pdf (pdf file) File Data.pdf (pdf file) File Line Graphs.pdf (pdf file) File Bar Graphs.pdf (pdf file) File Small Graph Quest.pdf (pdf file) File Variables.pdf (pdf file) File Steps to Making a Graph Checklist.pdf (pdf file) File Practice the scientific method.pdf (pdf file) File Gobstopper Lab.pdf (pdf file) Lab handouts
Week 2	File Vocabulary Weather Tools-6-4.5 and 6-4.6.doc (doc file) Recording Daily Weather Sheet for 5 days (doc file) File Cardboard-Thermometers--.jpg (jpg file) Lab Activity 56: Mapping Mean Ocean Surface Temperatures (doc file) File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data. Lab #55 Heating Earth's Surfaces (doc file) We do this lab as a full inquiry lab, but for absent students this gives more direciton for your lab make up day.  Lab handouts
Week 3	Vocabulary 6-4.2, 7 and 8 (doc file) Hurricane Tracking Chart (pdf file) Students use this to track all of the hurricanes for the season with a different color for each hurricane. Go to http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ to find the data to plot on your chart. http://newspaperads.myrtlebeachonline.com/SS/Page.aspx?sstarg=&facing=true&secid=84475&pagenum=1   File Hurricane Guide 2010.pdf (pdf file) File Recording_Daily_Weather_and_Hurricane_Tracking.doc (doc file) This is the data that the students need to record hurricane tracking on their hurricane tracking chart. File 9-15-09 PPT.ppt (ppt file) PPT for 9-15-09 Warm up on plotting hurricanes with a tracking chart and averaging mean, median and mode with weather data. Lab #55 Heating Earth's Surfaces (doc file) We do this lab as a full inquiry lab, but for absent students this gives more direciton for your lab make up day. File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data.  Lab handouts
Week 4	Vocabulary about Groundwater and Weather Careers (doc file) Chart to use in calculating Relative Humidity (doc file) File Relative Humidity Chart2.doc (doc file) How to understand a Weather Station Model (doc file) File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data.  Lab handouts
Week 5	Vocabulary about Clouds (doc file) Chapter 7 PPT (ppt file) File Global Wind Patterns.pdf (pdf file) File North American Wind Patterns.pdf (pdf file) File Soil Testing.pdf (pdf file) File Surface and Groundwater Questions.pdf (pdf file) File The Nitrogen Cycle.pdf (pdf file) File Underground Layers Cartoon.pdf (pdf file) File Wells Springs Auquifers cartoon.pdf (pdf file) File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data.  Lab handouts The famed and favorite"Groundwater Cartoon" with lyrics.
Week 6	Vocabulary 6-4.1 Layers of the Atmosphere (doc file) File Answers to Cut and Paste Layers of the Atmosphere Activity.pptx (pptx file) This is to use with the sheet that you cut and paste for the Layers of the atmosphere. (Remember the mnemonic device: That Snake Must Think I’m Evil!) Chapter 6 PPT (ppt file) Gases of the Atmosphere Pie Chart (pdf file) File AtmosphereFoldable1.pdf (pdf file) File Percent of Gases Atmosphere.pdf (pdf file) File Properties of Air Notes.pdf (pdf file) File The Nitrogen Cycle.pdf (pdf file) File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data.  Lab handouts
Week 7	File Vocabulary Global Winds-Jet Streams-Weather Patterns 6-4.9.pdf;6-4.7.pdf;6-4.pdf (pdf file) File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data. Lab handouts Weather & Atmosphere Review for big test (ppt file)
Week 8	File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data. Lab handouts
Week 9	File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file) This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data. Lab handouts

 The famed and favorite"Groundwater Cartoon" with lyrics.

File Weather Unit PowerPoint.ppt (ppt file)
This is the ultimate Weather PowerPoint. You use this PowerPoint to drive teaching the Weather Unit. If you play this PowerPoint, all of the files and videos below are embedded within it.
Weather Support Document (doc file)
This is the student's Weather Unit Support Document, everything that the student needs to know for the Benchmark and PASS Tests are included in this complete study guide.
Weather Vocabulary (ppt file)
Weather Vocabulary and learning how to track a hurricane
Hurricane Tracking Chart (pdf file)
Students use this to track all of the hurricanes for the season with a different color for each hurricane. Go to http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ to find the data to plot on your chart.
File Recording_Daily_Weather_and_Hurricane_Tracking.doc (doc file)
This is the data that the students need to record hurricane tracking on their hurricane tracking chart.
File 9-15-09 PPT.ppt (ppt file)
PPT for 9-15-09 Warm up on plotting hurricanes with a tracking chart and averaging mean, median and mode with weather data.
Lesson Plans Week 1 (doc file)
Lesson Plans Week 2 (doc file)
Lesson Plans Week 3 (doc file)
Lesson Plans Week 4 (doc file)
Lesson Plans Week 5 (doc file)
Lesson Plans Week 6 (doc file)
File Vocabulary Weather Tools-6-4.5 and 6-4.6.doc (doc file)
Vocabulary 6-4.2, 7 and 8 (doc file)
Vocabulary about Groundwater and Weather Careers (doc file)
Vocabulary about Clouds (doc file)
Vocabulary 6-4.1 Layers of the Atmosphere (doc file)
Layers of the Atmosphere Foldable Project (doc file)
File Answers to Cut and Paste Layers of the Atmosphere Activity.pptx (pptx file)
This is to use with the sheet that you cut and paste for the Layers of the atmosphere. (Remember the mnemonic device: That Snake Must Think I’m Evil!)
Lab Activity 56: Mapping Mean Ocean Surface Temperatures (doc file)
How to understand a Weather Station Model (doc file)
File 3D Hurricane Tracking.mht (mht file)
File Clouds_and_Forecasting.asf (asf file)
File Convection and Global Winds.asx (asx file)
File Edheads Temperature Converter.mht (mht file)
File High and Low Pressure_ Land and Sea Breezes.asx (asx file)
File SEPUP_atmosphere[1].swf (swf file)
File Hurricanes Inside the Storm -- Meteorologists, Atmospheric Scientists Fly Through Storms to Gather Data.mht (mht file)
File Inside the Tornado -- National Geographic.mht (mht file)
File Ocean Temps.mht (mht file)
File Science_Daily.mht (mht file)
File SEPUP Simulation links.doc (doc file)
File Solid__Liquid__Gas.asf (asf file)
File Sun's energy & Earth 6-4.6.asx (asx file)
File Tornado Montage -- National Geographic.mht (mht file)
File Welcome to Weather Underground Weather Underground.mht (mht file)
File The Sun, Water Cycle, and Climate.asx (asx file)
File Monsoons.asx (asx file)
File Our Restless Atmosphere.asx (asx file)
File Rain_or_Shine__Understanding_the_Weather.asf (asf file)
File Severe Weather.asx (asx file)
File The Water Cycle and Clouds.asx (asx file)
File Types of Clouds.asx (asx file)
File Waters 3 states.asf (asf file)
File Weather Instruments2.asx (asx file)
File Weather Phenomena.asx (asx file)
File Weather Smart.asx (asx file)
File Weather Instruments.asx (asx file)
File Wonders of Weather_Global Winds and Jet Streams.asx (asx file)
File Wonders of Weather.asx (asx file)
Chart to use in calculating Relative Humidity (doc file)
Recording Daily Weather Sheet for 5 days (doc file)
Dear Me Letter (doc file)
Dear Me Letter to be placed in an envelope and read at the end of the year.
File Groundwater Animation Video Lyrics.doc (doc file)
http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/waterandland/groundwater/education/animation.aspx
Groundwater Cartoon (swf file)
Directions to view your science book online (doc file)
These are directions in order to read your science book online. There is also a sound button that you can click to have the science book read aloud to you!
File Lab Report Blank Template.doc (doc file)
This is the standard template used for every lab. Each lab will be followed up with a graph to plot and analyze the data.
Lab #55 Heating Earth's Surfaces (doc file)
We do this lab as a full inquiry lab, but for absent students this gives more direciton for your lab make up day.
Gases of the Atmosphere Pie Chart (pdf file)
File Lab Safety Rules for F.M.S..doc (doc file)
File Relative Humidity Chart2.doc (doc file)
File Circle and Pie Graphs.pdf (pdf file)
File Data.pdf (pdf file)
File Global Wind Patterns.pdf (pdf file)
File Gobstopper Lab.pdf (pdf file)
File Line Graphs.pdf (pdf file)
File Bar Graphs.pdf (pdf file)
File Multiple Intelligence Survey.pdf (pdf file)
File Cardboard-Thermometers--.jpg (jpg file)
File North American Wind Patterns.pdf (pdf file)
File Percent of Gases Atmosphere.pdf (pdf file)
File Practice the scientific method.pdf (pdf file)
File Properties of Air Notes.pdf (pdf file)
File Scientific Method.pdf (pdf file)
File Small Graph Quest.pdf (pdf file)
File Soil Testing.pdf (pdf file)
File Steps to Making a Graph Checklist.pdf (pdf file)
File Surface and Groundwater Questions.pdf (pdf file)
File The Nitrogen Cycle.pdf (pdf file)
File Underground Layers Cartoon.pdf (pdf file)
File Variables.pdf (pdf file)
File Wells Springs Auquifers cartoon.pdf (pdf file)
Chapter 6 PPT (ppt file)
Chapter 7 PPT (ppt file)
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File E135.pdf (pdf file)
File Vocabulary Global Winds-Jet Streams-Weather Patterns 6-4.9.pdf;6-4.7.pdf;6-4.pdf (pdf file)
File Lesson Plans Week of Oct 5 2009.pdf (pdf file)
Weather & Atmosphere Review for big test (ppt file)
File Weather and Atmosphere I Have Who Has Game.pdf (pdf file)
Weather Flash Cards for cell phones, I-Pods, MP3 players (zip file)
File CloudFormationandTypesofCloudsPowerPoint.zip (zip file)
File WeatherVocabularyReviewGame.doc (doc file)
File Hurricane Guide 2010.pdf (pdf file)

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