Big Ideas:

To investigate how weather is a state of atmosphere at a particular time and place. To understand the major compentes of weather and climate.  ;  To appreciate the bathymetry of the ocean seafloor and the different geological processes found.

Essential Questions:

How does weather differ from climate? Why do seasonal changes occur? How is heat and temperature related? How do clouds form? How does air pressure, jet streams, masses, and front effect weather? ;  How does oceanography involve ocean floors, water, life, dynamics, and shorelines?

Vocabulary:

atmosphere, wind chill, moisture, humidity, air lifts, precipitation, rainbows, high/low pressure, wind, jet stream, thunderstorms, mesocyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes ; oceanography, bathymetry, continental (margins, shelf, slope), basin, mid-ocean ridge, mixed zone, waves, tides

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

May

Weather

Formative:

HS-ESS2-4,5,6; HS-ESS2-8,9; HS-ESS3-1; HS-ESS3-5, 6

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

Atmosphere

Create a hygrometer to help understand how it is used to measure relative humidity.

Student Partipiation and Dialog

Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play

Temperature/Heat

Use cotton balls to demonstrate water capacity in clouds.

Study Guide Assignments

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Wind Chill, Moisture, Humidity

Show how how water vapor causes precipitation.

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

Clouds

See if a cloud can be made artificially if the conditions are right inside a controlled environment.

Chapter Quizzes

Precipitation

Support the fact that convection can be modeled by using smoke as an indicator as warm air rises and cool air sinks in a cycle.

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

Air Pressure

Review surface weather station plots and being able to understand the symbols used to create such plots.

Jet Stream and Coriolis Effect

Create a model and/or demonstration that includes at least one manipulative and use it/them to present on one of any various weather-related topics.

Summative:

Masses and Fronts

Thunderstorms and Mesocyclones

Chapter Exam

Tornadoes and Hurricanes

HS-ESS2-8

Oceanography

Ocean Floor and Water

Present a knowledgeable explanation of one of the five main topics of oceanography to be presented to middle school science students.

Ocean Life

Ocean Dynamics and Shorelines

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