WHAT'S THE WEATHER: A UNIT POURING WITH FUN!

This unit covers the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) for:

Interrelationships in Earth/Space Systems:
2.6 The student will investigate and understand basic types, changes, and patterns of weather. Key
concepts include
a) temperature, wind, precipitation, drought, flood, and storms; and
b) the uses and importance of measuring and recording weather data.

WEATHER:
4.6 The student will investigate and understand how weather conditions and phenomena occur and can be predicted. Key concepts include
a) weather measurements and meteorological tools (air pressure-barometer, wind speed anemometer, rainfall-rain gauge, and temperature-thermometer); and
b) weather phenomena (fronts, clouds, and storms).
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EARTH’S RESOURCES, DISASTERS, AND INTERACTIONS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

MAKING THE 3 STATES REALLY MATTER
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I just added some more pages to this unit so my page numbers don't match the list below. I tried to move the pages to be near things they are related to. Just added a trivia test, cootie catchers, and a cloud notebook sheet.

Page 2 Interactive Notes: Types of Storms
Page 3 Interactive Notes: Types of Precipitation
Page 4 Interactive Notes: Weather Instruments
Page 5 Interactive Notes: This instrument Measures
Page 6 Weather Instruments – Definitions
Page 7-8 Thermometers – Boiling point/Melting Point
Page 9 - 10 Experiment: Can I make a model of a tornado?
Page 11 Notebook sheet: Can I make a model of a tornado?
Page 12 Ticket Out the Door
Page 13 - 14 Experiment 2: Tornado in a Jar and Ticket Out the Door
Page 15 - 17 How Does an Anemometer Work?, Experiment Checklist
Page 18 Experiment: Can Temperature Move Water
Page 19 Experiment: Can I Put Lightning in My Mouth?
Page 20 Experiment: Will it Sink or Float?
Page 21, 22 Definitions of Study
Page 23-25 Posters: Precipitation, Weather Fronts, Clouds
Page 26 Notes: Geostationary Satellite
Page 27 Poster: Warm Front/Cold Front
Page 28 Notebook sheet: Warm Front/Cold Front
Page 29-32 Primary Source Weather Pictures – turn and talk about it – then write
Page 33 Homework: Weather forecast sheet
Page 34 Adjectives of Weather words
Page 35 Internet: Trip Forecast – Pack a suitcase
Page 36 Literature Connection: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Venn Diagram
Page 37,38 Venn Diagrams (compare Tornado/Hurricane & Flood/Drought)
Page 39 Brainstorm: How disasters Affect Wildlife (Flood, Drought, Fires)
Page 40-42 Reading Thermometers (Celsius, Fahrenheit)
Page 43 Compound Weather Words
Page 44-51 8 Teacher Demonstrations: Thunderstorms, Lightning and Thunder, Lightning, Making Rain, Silly Marshmallow Under Pressure, Model of Snow, A Collapsing Can, Making a Vacuum
Page 52 - 53 Experiment: Can I make Wind? And Snake Template
Page 54 Experiment: Can I make a Wind Vane?
Page 55 Make a Pinwheel
Page 56 Sea Breeze/Land Breeze
Page 57 Water Cycle
Page 58 Air Pressure
Page 59 Water Cycle Fill in
Page 60 10 Things to Put in An Emergency Box for a Disaster
Page 61 Be a Meteorologist: 10 tips about lightning
Page 62 I Spy: Watch the News
Page 63 Good Websites
new - Page 64-69 - matching cards for study, Interactive notes for clouds, disasters, and instruments
Plus just added: Just added a trivia test, cootie catchers, and a cloud notebook sheet.
and just added pages 75-76 - lab on hot air/cool air