DO NOW
Monday
Jan. 13
V: 0
Complete the Topographic Map card sort with your
shoulder partner.
Homework & Agenda
Homework Grade Level: Earth’s Atmosphere
Pre-AP: Earth’s Atmosphere
Today’s
Agenda
Due Friday, Jan. 17
-Trade & Grade Homework
-Before & After
-Exit Ticket
V: 0
TEKS
V: 0
8.9 (C) Interpret topographic maps and satellite
views to identify land and erosional features and
predict how these features may be reshaped by
weather.
Vocabulary
contour line
contour interval
altitude
successive
topographic map
V: 0
satellite view
land feature
erosional feature
weathering
erosion
EQs & Objectives
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ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
- How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
-Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and
erosional features and predict how these features may be reshaped
by weathering.
Trade & Grade Homework
V: 1
Trade your homework with someone at your table.
Before & After
V: 1
Look at the before and after pictures from a natural disaster.
Make 3 observations and a prediction about what happened to the
land.
Satellite Images
What land feature is shown below?
V: 1
Satellite Images
V: 1
What land feature is shown below?
Mississippi River
(delta, flood plain)
Satellite Images
What land feature is shown below?
V: 1
Satellite Images
V: 1
What land feature is shown below?
Mount St. Helens
(volcano)
Satellite Images
What land feature is shown below?
V: 1
Satellite Images
V: 1
What land feature is shown below?
Rio Grande
(river)
Satellite Images
What land feature is shown below?
V: 1
Satellite Images
V: 1
What land feature is shown below?
Grand Canyon
Satellite Images
V: 1
Exit Ticket
V: 1
Complete the Landforms and Maps Card Sort with
your shoulder partner.
DO NOW
Tuesday What is the difference
in elevation in meters
Jan. 14 between Point X and
Point Y?
V: 0
Homework & Agenda
Homework Grade Level: Earth’s Atmosphere
Pre-AP: Earth’s Atmosphere
Today’s
Agenda
Due Friday, Jan. 17
-Topographic Map and Satellite Views Quiz
-Cover Page for Weather
V: 0
TEKS
V: 0
8.9 (C) Interpret topographic maps and satellite
views to identify land and erosional features and
predict how these features may be reshaped by
weather.
Vocabulary
contour line
contour interval
altitude
successive
topographic map
V: 0
satellite view
land feature
erosional feature
weathering
erosion
EQs & Objectives
V: 0
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
- How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
-Interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and
erosional features and predict how these features may be reshaped
by weathering.
QUIZ
Read and re-read the passage.
Underline the question
Bubble important words
Identify the key idea, write it in margin.
Eliminate the wrong answers
Select the correct answer ✓
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Cover Page - Weather
V: 0
Create a Weather cover page that includes the
word “Weather” and 3 pictures that you think of
when you hear the word “weather”.
DO NOW
Wed/Thrs Describe what the
arrows represent
Jan. 15-16 and what is
happening in the
image to the right.
V: 0
Homework & Agenda
Homework Grade Level: Earth’s Atmosphere
Pre-AP: Earth’s Atmosphere
Today’s
Agenda
Due Friday, Jan. 17
-Moving Circles lab
-Convection Current Reading
-BrainPop: Ocean Currents
-Ocean Current Map
-Wrap Up Questions
V: 0
TEKS
V: 0
8.10 (A) Recognize that the sun provides the energy
that drives convection within the atmosphere and
oceans, producing winds and ocean currents.
Vocabulary
weather
weather map
atmosphere
ocean currents
wind
cold front
warm front
meteorologist
barometer
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air pressure
air mass
high pressure air mass
low pressure air mass
convection
thermal energy
Coriolis effect
atmospheric movement
EQs & Objectives
V: 0
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
- How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
-make observations about how convection currents relate to ocean
currents and air currents.
Moving Circles Lab
V: 2
1. Put on your safety goggles.
2. Fill the plastic container ¾ full of water
3. Balance the container on the 4 cups and let the
water settle.
Moving Circles Lab
V: 2
4. Slowly squeeze red food coloring onto the
bottom of the container toward one side.
5. Remove ice from cup and place in the container
on the opposite side.
Moving Circles Lab
V: 2
6. Using safety gloves, pick up beaker of hot water
and place it under the container beneath the red
food coloring.
7. In your INB, draw a picture and record your
observations.
CONVECTION IN LIQUIDS!
Convection Current Reading
V: 0
In your INB, set up a page with the following:
What is a convection How do convection
current?
currents affect
winds?
What is the source
of energy that drives
convection
currents?
Student Choice….
Write a question
and answer it using
text evidence from
the reading.
Convection Current Reading
V: 0
Read about convection currents and then answer
the questions.
• Turn to your partner and answer the question:
“What is wind?”
“What causes the wind to blow?”
• Together, select the explanation you both
think is the most accurate.
• Share with the class!
What is wind?
Wind is air in motion. It is produced by the
uneven heating of the earth’s surface by the
sun. Since the earth’s surface is made of
various land and water formations, it absorbs
the sun’s radiation unevenly.
What causes the wind to blow?
As the sun warms the Earth's surface, the
atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the Earth
receive direct rays from the sun all year and are
always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so
the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less
than cold air, rises. Then cool air moves in and
replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air
is what makes the wind blow.
What is wind? (Brainpop)
http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/wind/
CONVECTION
transfer of heat by the movement of
warmed matter; hot air/water rises,
cool air/water sinks
Hot Air is Less Dense! (so it rises)
What Can
Convection Do?
CONVECTION
Moves air in the atmosphere!
CONVECTION
Wind over the
shore changes
direction
because of
EARTH’S
UNEVEN
WARMING &
COOLING!
What Causes Wind?
Bill Nye’s Explains Wind in 2 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqohRu2RRk&feature=related
Bill didn’t use the word
“convection”… but he described it!
How did he demonstrate convection?
BrainPop Video
Ocean Currents
V: 0
Ocean Currents Map
Label currents on the ocean map.
Cold Currents – BLUE
Warm Currents – RED
Glue the ocean current map into your INB.
V: 1
Ocean Currents Map
V: 1
CONVECTION
causes deep
ocean currents!
Ocean Currents and Coastal Temperatures
Inland vs. Coastal Cities
Wrap Up Questions
V: 1
1. Explain how the blue water and red water moved
in the container in the Moving Circles lab.
2. Why do you think they moved that way?
3. If the water in the containers represented the
ocean, how does the water in the ocean move?
4. Recall that thermal energy moves in a predictable
pattern from warmer to cooler areas. How is this
concept illustrated in this model?
DO NOW
Friday
Jan. 17
V: 0
Meteorologists predict the weather patterns
everyday. What tools do you think they need in to
do their job?
Homework & Agenda
Homework Grade Level: Earth’s Atmosphere
Pre-AP: Earth’s Atmosphere
Today’s
Agenda
Due Today
-Weather Tool Stations
-Weather Tool Card Sort
V: 0
TEKS
V: 0
8.10 (A) Recognize that the sun provides the energy
that drives convection within the atmosphere and
oceans, producing winds and ocean currents.
Vocabulary
Barometer
Thermometer
Weather vane
Psychrometer
Anemometer
V: 0
EQs & Objectives
V: 0
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
- How does Earth’s surface change?
DAILY OBJECTIVES:
Students will…
-identify lab equipment used to observe weather and describe what it
is used for.
Weather Tool Stations
V: 2
With your table group, visit each of the stations.
At each station, record the following:
- Name of the equipment
- Description of the tool
- Describe a situation when the tool would be
most useful
Weather Tool Card Sort
V: 2
Complete the card sort with your shoulder partner.