PASSPORT TO WEATHER AND CLIMATE
ONLINE TEACHER'S GUIDE
Dear Educators
Credits
How to Implement LIVE FROM THE STORM
Three Scheduling and Implementation Options
Opening Activities
A.1 Weather and Climate Facts and Fiction
• Teacher Resource Sheet A.1.1
• Teacher Resource Sheet A.1.1 Answer Key (To receive a copy of the answer key send a message to Eileen Bendixsen)
A.2 KWL Chart
A.3 Pre-test/Post-test
• Copy Master A.3
• Copy Master A.3 Answer Key (To receive a copy of the answer key send a message to Eileen Bendixsen)
A.4 WEATHERLogs
• Portfolio Assessment Summary Sheet
• WEATHERLog Rubric
section 1 WHAT
MAKES EARTH'S WEATHER
1.1 Sun and Seasons
• Student Worksheet 1.1 (side 1)
• Student Worksheet 1.1 (side 2)
1.2 Differential Heating and Cooling of Land and Ocean
• Student Worksheet 1.2
1.3 The Water Cycle
1.4 Pressure, Temperature and Wind
• Student Worksheet 1.4.2.1 high procedure
• Student Worksheet 1.4.2.1 high
• Student Worksheet 1.4.2.1 low procedure
• Student Worksheet 1.4.2.2 low
1.5 Ocean Currents, Jet Streams and El Niņo
• Student Worksheet 1.5.1 Global Air Circulation
• Student Worksheet 1.5.2 Ocean Patterns
section 2 MAKING
WEATHER IN CLASS
2.1 Creating Clouds
• Student Worksheet 2.1
2.2 "Dew-ing" the Dew Point
• Student Worksheet 2.2
2.3 Making Lightning
• Student Worksheet 2.3
2.4 Twister in a Bottle
• Student Worksheet 2.4
2.5 Rainbows and the Spectrum of Visible
• Student Worksheet 2.5
2.6 Warm Front/Cold Front
• Student Worksheet 2.6.1 side 1
• Student Worksheet 2.6.1 side 2
• Student Worksheet 2.6.2
section 3 RECORDING
AND TRACKING WEATHER ("Reading the Sky")
3.1 Making Weather Instruments
• Student Worksheet 3.1 Barometer
• Student Worksheet 3.1 Anemometer
• Student Worksheet 3.1 Thermometer
• Student Worksheet 3.1 Psychrometer
• Student Worksheet 3.1 Rain Gauge
3.2 Reading the Sky (using cloud types to predict the weather)
• Student Worksheet 3.2.1 Cloud Types and Precipitation Key (side 1)
• Student Worksheet 3.2.1 Cloud Types and Precipitation Key (side 2)
• Student Worksheet 3.2.2 Procedure
• Student Worksheet 3.2.2 Data Table
3.3 Interpreting Weather Symbols-the visual language of weather
• Student Worksheet 3.3.1 Weather Symbols Key (side 1)
• Student Worksheet 3.3.1 Weather Symbols Key (side 2)
• Student Worksheet 3.3.2
3.4 Plotting Temperatures on a Weather Map
3.5 Doppler Radar in a Shoebox
• Student Worksheet 3.5 Grid
• Student Worksheet 3.5.1 Reflectivity Mode
• Student Worksheet 3.5.2 Velocity Mode
section 4 WEATHER,
CLIMATE AND SOCIETY
4.1 Writing up a Storm
• Student Worksheet 4.1 Rubric
4.2 Hurricane Houses
• Student Worksheet 4.2.1 Formulas
• Student Worksheet 4.2.2
• Student Worksheet 4.2.3 Self Evaluation
4.3 Making a Weather and Climate Timeline
• Student Worksheet 4.3.1 Sample Timeline
• Student Worksheet 4.3.2
• Student Worksheet 4.3.3 Rubric
4.4 The Greenhouse Effect
• Student Worksheet 4.4
Closing Activities
• Student Worksheet Z.2
Resources
Where required, copy masters of student worksheets are supplied. We have not included the answer keys for Weather and Climate Facts and Fiction and the Pre-test/Post-test to allow teachers to assign those sheets as homework assignments. You can receive an answer key by sending a message to Eileen Bendixsen.
The Guide is available online in PDF format, activity by activity. However as those of you who've used recent PTK projects such as LIVE FROM THE RAINFOREST and LIVE FROM THE SUN know, we try to make the printed Guides superior in design as well as content. "Teachers and students deserve the best." Yes, you can get all the above "free" on the Net, but we think you'll be even happier with your $30.00 order of the Guide, worksheets and an oversize full-color poster! Sometimes people equate "free" with valueless, and we sure hope no-one thinks that about this Guide!
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