Weather
Agenda
06 – 09 JAN 15
1. Warm Up
JASON Project: Mission 1
(front side only)
You will need to work with a partner
2. Causes of Weather Notes
3. Atmosphere and Weather Menu Project
4. Factors of Weather: Temperature (HW)
WARM UP:
What is weather?
Read pages 6-11 in your Jason Project books
(you need to share!)
http://www.neok12.com/video/Seasons/zX674c51737f7a505b044f67.htm
What is weather?
Weather - the state of the atmosphere
at a given time and place.
Get your Causes of Weather note
sheet and get ready to fill it in!
The Sun and the Water Cycle
• The Sun (1) powers the
water cycle.
• Solar power (energy)
heats up the oceans (5)
causing the water to
evaporate (3). As it
cools, water vapor
condenses (2) into
clouds and falls back
to Earth as precipitation
(4).
The Shape of the Earth
• Even though the Earth
is round, it is tilted on
its axis
• Due to the tilt, different
parts get different
amounts of sunlight.
• The equator gets the
most direct sunlight.
• The poles get indirect
sunlight.
Air, Pressure, and Wind
Cause: Air pressure
Effect: Wind movement
• Air pressure differences
cause wind.
• Wind is moving air.
• Warmer areas have low
pressure (higher in altitude)
• Cooler areas have high
pressure (lower in altitude.)
• Air likes to move from high
pressure areas into low
pressure areas.
• On the BACK of your
notes is our
weather chart!
WE will fill this out
together so please
keep these in your
NOTES section!
Check out the weather bug
camera on the roof of
Cardinal Ridge Elementary!
JML Weather Bug:
Use this link to see
the data and fill out
your weather chart!
• Heat moves around Convection, Conduction,
and Radiation
• Types of weather
What
to
KNOW:
• Types of weather fronts cold front & warm fronts
• Measurement tools for
weather - thermometer,
barometer, rain gauge,
hygrometer/psychrometer
• Cloud formation and
types of clouds
• Air pressure in weather
• The TROPOSPHERE air is
constantly moving too.
• There are CONVECTION
currents of air.
• Warm air from the equator
moves toward the poles
and cold air from the poles
moves toward the equator.
Coriolis explained! = Video 2
Thinking about our Weather
• How does weather
affect air travel and
safety?
• How does daily
weather affect YOUR
afterschool plans?
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/ja
ms/science/weather-and-climate/weatherand-climate.htm
SNOW FUN PICTURE
Mrs. Koop took this
picture!
It is a hill in ROMANIA!
How the Sun hits the Earth at
different times of the year
Websites from the presentation
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5.
6.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/eWOhOic9MJE
(Factors Affecting Weather)
http://www.neok12.com/video/Seasons/zX674c51737f7a505b044f67.htm
(Our World: What is Weather)
http://weather.weatherbug.com/VA/Chantilly-weather/weather-cams/local-cams.html?zcode=z6286
(Weather Bug Camera – Cardinal Ridge Elementary)
http://weather.weatherbug.com/VA/Chantilly-weather.html?zcode=z6286&stat=CHJML
(JML Weather Bug Station)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2mec3vgeaI
(Coriolis Effect)
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/weather-and-climate/weather-and-climate.htm
(Weather and Climate)