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Course/Subject:6th Grade Science
Topic: Climate and Weather Unit
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Key Learning: Understand how distribution of land and oceans affects climate and weather.
How are climate and weather affected?
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Seasons
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Unequal heating
of Earth
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Wind Systems
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Weather /Climate
Concept:
Weather events
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What is the
reason for the
seasons?
What is wind?
What are local
winds?
What is the
difference between
weather and
climate?
What is severe
weather?
What would
happen if the tilt of
the Earth was 0
degrees?
How are seasons
different between
the northern and
southern
hemispheres?
What is
pressure?
What causes
wind?
What causes
the wind?
What is the
Coriolis Effect?
What global
winds?
Does distance
between the Earth
and the sun have
any effect on the
seasons?
What is the jet
stream?
What is a land
breeze?
What is a sea
breeze?
What is the effect
of unequal heating
of land and water?
How does air
temperature over
and land and water
change between
day and night?
What are global
winds?
What are air
masses?
How are air masses
formed?
What are the types
of air masses?
What is a
thunderstorm?
What are the two
atmospheric
conditions that are
needed to produce
a thunderstorm?
What is lightning?
What are the
different types of
clouds?
What is thunder?
What is tornado?
What is a front?
What are the types
of fronts?
What is a
meteorologist?
What do the
symbols represent?
How do I read a
Where do 76% of
all tornadoes in the
world occur and
why?
What seasons do
most tornadoes
occur in?
What produces the
fastest winds on
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weather map?
Earth?
What types of
clouds form
tornadoes?
What causes the
most damage from
a tornado?
What is a
hurricane?
Why do hurricanes
only form in certain
parts of the world?
Where do
hurricanes in the
Atlantic Ocean
form?
What fuels a
hurricane?
How does a
hurricane die?
What causes the
most death and
destruction from a
hurricane?
What are the parts
of a hurricane?
(eye, eye wall, rain
bands)
Vocabulary:
Tilt
Axis
Seasons
Rotation
Revolution
Vernal equinox
Autumnal equinox
Northern
Hemisphere
Vocabulary:
wind
Coriolis effect
jet stream
Vocabulary:
land breeze
sea breeze
global wind
local wind
El Nino
Vocabulary:
air mass
front
meteorologist
isobar
barometer
humidity
relative humidity
dew point
wind vane
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Tornado
Hurricane
Thunderstorm
Lightning
Thunder
Cyclones
Typhoons
Low pressure
system
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Southern
Hemisphere
cumulus
cumulonimbus
stratus
cirrus
climate
high pressure
low pressure
Additional Information/Resources:
Draw and label the global winds diagram.
Draw and label diagrams of wind patterns of land and sea
breezes
Draw and label Fronts, Diagram lightning, tornadoes, hurricane.
Brain pop
Videos (Bill Nye Weather)
Animations (land/sea breeze, fronts, seasons)
Weather map scavenger hunt (Brunswick News)
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