Weather: It's All Around Us
 

Hardly a day passes when you can't look in the sky and notice changes occuring in the weather. These changes can affect many decisions you and other people around you have to make.

The study of weather involves many concepts. Your group will be responsible for researching one of those categories, organizing the information, creating materials you will use to teach your fellow classmates about your subject, and finally, providing a way to assess your classmates on your topic.

 

Here are the concepts you can choose from. Click on the concept to find sources for your research.

Clouds/
Layers of the
Atmosphere

Weather
Instruments

Water Cycle/ States of Water
 

Here are the products your group needs to create.

NOTES:

An outline of the information you gather on your topic.

(Assign group members certain tasks to look up)

DISPLAY:

A visual representation you will use to teach your classmates.

(SMARTideas poster, PowerPoint project, Hand-crafted poster, models)

ASSESSMENTS

An event or assessment that will demonstrate how well your classmates have learned the concepts you taught them.

 

 

EVALUATION

EVALUATION EVALUATION

 

 
CLOUDS
LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE

Levels of Clouds
Plymouth State Clouds
Dan's Wild Weather Clouds
Observing Clouds
Figgerbottom's Cloud Forecasting
Enchanted Learning Clouds
Web Weather for Kids:Cloud Types

Layers of the Atmosphere
Enchanted Learning Atmosphere
Graph showing pressure change in layers
The Atmosphere

 
WEATHER INSTRUMENTS

Instruments

Make your own weather station
Weather Instruments:electronic
School Science: Weather instruments
Weather Wiz Kids
Making Weather Instruments
Scholastic Weather Instruments

What they measure

 


Barometer 2
What Barometers do
How Stuff Works: Barometers
   
Hygrometer  
Wind Vane

Wind
How Stuff Works: Anemometers
Wind info
Windows to the Universe:Wind
Creating Wind
Sun info
Weather Dude sun facts


 

Extreme Weather

Extreme Science: Weather
Hurricanes
Make a Hurricane
Aim a Hurricane
Remote Sensing and Hurricanes
Wild Weather
Weather Wiz Kids: Hurricane
Weather Wiz Kids: Tornadoes
Tornadoes
Wild Weather Twister
Twister:the Tornado Story
Thunderstorm formation

 

FRONTS

What happens along fronts?
What's a weather front? (scroll down)
Fronts: University of Illinois
Fronts

WEATHER SYMBOLS
Weather Station Symbols
Weather Symbols
Weather Map Symbols

 
WATER CYCLE

Animated Water Cycle

Water Cycle in Motion


Earth Floor: Water Cycle
Weather Watch: Water Cycle
Enchanted Learning Water Cycle (includes different terminology)
Kid Zone: Water Cycle
BBC Water Cycle
Let the Cycle Begin
Water Cycle: Hands-On Activities
Precipitation

STATES OF WATER

Interactive Water Molecule simulator
States of Matter
States of Water
Precipitation