8th+Grade+Meteorology


 * Established Goals: **

(10) Earth and space. The student knows that climatic interactions exist among Earth, ocean, and weather systems. The student is expected to: (A) recognize that the Sun provides the energy that drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds and ocean currents; (B) identify how global patterns of atmospheric movement influence local weather using weather maps that show high and low pressures and fronts; and (C) identify the role of the oceans in the formation of weather systems such as hurricanes.

**Enduring Understandings: ** **//S// ****//tudents will understand that…// **

 ¨ Atmospheric movement influence local weather ¨ oceans create climatic changes ¨ the sun is the source of energy driving changes in the atmosphere

Essential Questions (framed in appropriate “kid language”):

 ¨ How do ocean currents affect marine climates? ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">What factors influence local weather? ||
 * ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">How do solar, weather, and ocean systems interact?

//<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Students will know… //

¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">weather is the condition of the Earth’s atmosphere ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">the causes of wind ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">air pressure can be measured ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">that interactions occur between solar, weather, and ocean systems. ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">how ocean currents affect coastal climates ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">atmospheric pressure and fronts influence weather <span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;">

//<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">Students will be able to… //

<span style="display: block; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .3in; text-indent: -0.3in;"> ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">measure, record, and graph temperature changes ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">explain the use of a variety of tools to record weather conditions (i.e. barometer, psychrometer, and/or anemometer) ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">compare warm and cold fronts with related weather conditions on Earth ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">describe how oceans affect weather. ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">describe how the sun creates and affects the weather. ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">understand how hurricanes, monsoons, & droughts occur. ¨ <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">describe the effects of El Niño & other global weather changes

<span style="display: block; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-left: center; mso-element-top: .5pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Vocabulary: ** <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">Wind <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">anemometer <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">sea breeze <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">land breeze <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">Monsoon <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">Coriolis effect <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">latitude <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">jet stream <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">Temperature <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">thermal energy c <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">onduction <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">convection <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">Radiation <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">heat <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">thermometer <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 12.6pt; tabstops: .3in; text-indent: 9pt;">psychrometer Barometer drought greenhouse effect precipitation ice age ozone ozone layer climate El Niño tropical zone polar zone temperate zone ocean currents