Objectives and Strategies.
This unit is about weather. Its primary objective is to increase weather awareness. The basic structure used for doing so is to keep a weather log and develop answers to the following four questions. (1) How is our weather dependent on the Earth’s gravity and the Sun’s energy? (2) What are the four main components of weather? (3) How are storms created? (4) what can we learn from weather reports?
The teacher’s introduction is followed by a student text. A copy of it for each student will help save teacher preparation time and give students material to use. During the course of the unit each student is expected to read the text, keep a daily weather log, make illustrations, do an individual one or two page report, do several worksheets, work in a group to prepare and present a report on one of the topics given below, and take a final test. Four weeks of lesson plans, a weather log form and a unit test are included.
Project topics are as follows.
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1. Clouds
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6. Weather Forecasting
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2. Thunderstorms
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7. Compare TV, Radio and
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and Lightning
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Newspaper Weather Reports
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3. Hurricanes and Tornadoes
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8. Global Air and Water Currents
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4. Weather Instruments Airplanes
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9. Effects of Weather on
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5. Connecticut Weather topics
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10. Other related, approved
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This unit has been designed for use as a four week unit in a consumer, applied or general math course. It also would be appropriate for some science classes. A lot of numbers are given with the idea that by doing so it may be more interesting to students and provide material for teachers to use in various ways. Depending on the class, middle and high school students can use this unit.
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