This activity is a classroom activity where students will create a collage of pictures based upon precipitation/water during each season.
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This activity involves student teams classifying clouds into the main categories, making a poster of their findings, having a poster session and learning the vocabulary terms cirrus, stratus and cumulus.
- Author:
- Jean K. Fairchild
This book making activity is a way to assess students knowledge of cloud types, their description, and the weather they bring.
- Author:
- Linda Edmondson
This activity is a field investigation where students measure, record and describe weather conditions using common tools (rain gauge, thermometer, and barometer). They will compare their observations to Weather.com (online) and the local newspapers to compare their findings, and record these observations.
This is a three part lesson looking at snowflakes. Students will study an early scientist who discovered that all snowflakes are different. Students will also research basic characteristics of snowflakes. And finally, they will draw a snowflake of their own trying to incorporate what we learned, and write about what we did and the steps we took to learn about snowflakes.
- Author:
- Robyn Johnson
Students will raise questions about the natural world and seek answers by making careful observations about the weather. Students will measure, record and describe weather conditions using common tools, like thermometer, anemometer, rain gauge and possibly, light meter.
- Author:
- Hedenstrom, Mary
- Mary Hedenstrom
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This course introduces theoretical and practical principles of design of oceanographic sensor systems. Topics include: transducer characteristics for acoustic, current, temperature, pressure, electric, magnetic, gravity, salinity, velocity, heat flow, and optical devices; limitations on these devices imposed by ocean environments; signal conditioning and recording; noise, sensitivity, and sampling limitations; and standards. Lectures by experts cover the principles of state-of-the-art systems being used in physical oceanography, geophysics, submersibles, acoustics. For lab work, day cruises in local waters allow students to prepare, deploy and analyze observations from standard oceanographic instruments.
- Subject:
- Oceanography
- Physical Science
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Textbook
- Author:
- Williams, Albert (Sandy), 3rd
- Date Added:
- 01/01/2004
In this field lab students will go outside and observe a particular area of the schoolyard. Students will design investigations to complete outside and will use outdoor observations to provide evidence for our indoor activities.
- Author:
- Alissa Naymark
- Alissa Naymark
Students learn how scientific terms are formed using Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes, and on that basis, learn to make an educated guess about the meaning of a word. Students are introduced to the role played by metaphor in language development.
- Author:
- Jane Evenson
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Integrated Teaching and Learning Program,
- Denise Carlson
This activity teaches students weather terminology, how to interpret weather data, and make a weather prediction based on that data.
- Author:
- William Lubansky
This activity is an introduction to the water cycle where students will use observation, drawing, writing, recording, questioning, and communication to understand the concept of condensation.
Students are introduced to some essential meteorology concepts so they more fully understand the impact of meteorological activity on air pollution control and prevention. First, they develop an understanding of the magnitude and importance of air pressure. Next, they build a simple aneroid barometer to understand how air pressure information is related to weather prediction. Then, students explore the concept of relative humidity and its connection to weather prediction. Finally, students learn about air convection currents and temperature inversions. In an associated literacy activity, students learn how scientific terms are formed using Latin and Greek roots, prefixes and suffixes, and are introduced to the role played by metaphor in language development. Note: Some of these activities can be conducted simultaneously with the air quality activity (What Color Is Your Air Today?) of Air Pollution unit, Lesson 1.
- Author:
- Janet Yowell
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Natalie Mach
- Integrated Teaching and Learning Program,
- Amy Kolenbrander
- Denise Carlson
This activity is a field investigation where students gather weather cycle data on seasons and climate. They will graph their observations, share with others and connect weather and seasons together.
This classroom lab activity is an investigation into what happens to warm air and cold air in the atmosphere shown by the convection of colored water.
- Author:
- Annette Walen Hokanson
This activity is a daily lab where two students read a thermometer and identify the cloud type for a week. They record it on the board first and we all record it in our journals. A graph of the entire year is also completed and we can analyze the data as we go. We get two new "scientists" each week and we do it all year. I start the first week of school.
- Author:
- Robyn Johnson