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Unit 2: Weather*

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Interactive Science Notebook

If you are ABSENT, look at the ToC to see if pages have been added. You are responsible for keeping your notebook up to date. Left-hand pages are ones that are student
thinking and this must be your own work. Right-hand pages are group or teacher-directed and can be photocopied using the class photocopier. 



Task
You are a meteorologist advising some adventurers on a trip they plan to take.

Big Aha!
Why are different places on Earth so hot, dry, cold, wet, sunny, and windy?

Focus Questions
  • How are clouds formed?
  • What information does a weather map communicate?
  • What happens when hot and cold water are put in contact?
  • How will weather maps look over the next two days?
  • What is density?
  • What do temperature and density have to do with weather?
  • What is the relationship between altitude and air pressure?
  • Is air matter?
  • How can I develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity?
  • How does salinity affect density & ocean currents?
  • Based on the ocean currents, what would you expect in terms of rainfall in Africa?

Enduring Understanding
  • Weather can be mapped out.
  • Weather maps show patterns.
  • Weather can be predicted (probability).
* Unit adapted from Oakland Unified School District's curriculum
Vocabulary

If you are an English Language Learner, then you are responsible for the words with an asterisk (*).
Air mass*
Air Pressure*
Cloud*
Condensation*
Cycle*
Density*
Energy*
Evaporation*
Forecast*
Front (Warm & Cold)*

Heat Reservoir
Humidity*
Isobars
Isotherms

Meteorology*
Oceanic circulation
Ocean current*
Precipitation*
Predict (Prediction)*

Rain Shadow
Temperature*

Weather*
Wind*     ​​

Make it Real! Science at Home - Density Column

Make a density column you can drink

Lessons

 King Tides 

Lesson 0 - Setup Notebook and Phenomena
Day 1 (Oct. ) -  Unit Cover Page & Big Aha!  
Nov. 5 - SUB - Air Density Reading NEXT YEAR: Do later 
Day 2 & 3 (Nov. 18 & 20/21) - Cloud in a Jar & Weather Maps - drew outline of mason jar and did weather maps
Nov. 19 - Garden time


Lesson 1 - Air Pressure & Density
Day 3 (Nov. 22) - Density: Hot & Cold
​Day 4 (Dec. 2)  Density Cubes  CER

Day 5 (Dec. 3) - Density Cubes CER - Calculations & Evidence Continued
Day 6 (Dec. 4/5) - Density cubes CER Reason & Weather in a Basin
Day 7 (Dec. 6) - Scanning anchor reading on air pressure and writing Altitude and Air Pressure CER 
NOTE: Dec. 9 is out of order because I had a sub. 
Dec. 10 - Review Big Ahas!, have 1 person upload Tiny House project, Future is Wild video

Day 8 (Dec. 11/12) - Altitude and Air Pressure CER
Day 9 (Dec. 13 - assembly schedule) - Review Altitude and Air Pressure CER Reason and  do Air Pressure in a Bottle
SUB Day 16  (Dec.16 ) Cloud in a Bottle Revisited & Air Masses Reading
Dec. 17 - Garden day & work on 2nd Big Aha!

Day 10 (Dec. 18/19 ) - Review Pressure in a bottle CERs; Is Air Matter?

SUB - DONE Day 11 (Dec. 9) - Weather's Big 3 & Air Masses & 1 Big Aha! 
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​Lesson 2: Water Cycle
Day 12 (Dec. 20) - Modeling the Water Cycle - Stronger Clearer & Convection Chamber
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Day 13 (Jan. 6) - Finish Modeling the Water Cycle - Stronger Clearer & Convection Chamber

Lesson 3: Drivers of Weather
Day 15 (Jan. 8/9) 6.3.3 - Differential Heating & Cooling  
​Day 16 (Jan.  10) - 
6.3.3  Graphing & CER Differential Heating & Cooling

Lesson 4: Winds
Day 14 (Jan. 7) - Wind & local winds  & Sea/Land breezes reading

Lesson 5: Air Masses
Day 17 (Jan. 13) - Air Masses Booklet - creating cover and front cover (watch videos parts  2 & 3) 
Day 18 (Jan. 14) -
back painting  Air Masses Booklet Day 2 - Go out and do cloud observations - HW: Watch video drawing clouds; start working working on Canvas piece
Day 19 (Jan. 15/16) -   Air Masses Booklet - create the 5 pages for collecting cloud observation and weather 
Day 20  (Jan. 17) -  Day 1 Weather Observation - make sure DIfferential Heating Lab is turned in
Day 21 (Jan. 21) - Coriolis Effect, Relative Humidity & What Affects Temperature; Big Aha!
Day 22 (Jan. 22/23) - What Affects Temperature & Temperature Zones & Big Aha!
Day 23 (Jan. 24)_ Return Air Masses Reading; Work Day:
1.  Air Masses Booklet + cloud observation
2.  Differential Heating CER - turned in? printed?
3.  Big Aha! #3
4.  Done with 1-3? End of Unit CER

Lesson 4: Currents - Wind & Water
Day 23 (Jan. 27) - Factors Affecting Temp,  Factors affecting precipitation & Currents & Gyres 
Day 24 (Jan. 28) -   Density and Salinity      (NEXT YEAR - add a day -  Gulf Streams & Upwelling reading)
​Day 25 (Jan. 29/30) -  Currents off Africa & grade & collect  Air Masses booklet
Day 26 (Jan. 31) - Reading: Current & Climates  & One Pager  - Collect late  Air Masses Booklets 
Day 27 (Feb. 3) - One Pager & Collect late booklets

​Day 28 (Feb . 4)  - 
Feb. 5 - Global Play Day / Feb. 6 work time on End of Unit CER
Day 29 (Feb. 7) - End of Unit Modeling Task
Day 30 (Feb. 10) Video 1 on El Niño &  Video 2 on El Niño & Reading: El Nino, La Nina, & Upwellings & Graphic Notes
Day 31 (Feb. 11) - Finish Modeling Task & Feedback

Lesson 5: Summative Task 
​Day 32 (Feb 12/13) - Summative Task & Assess Academic Vocabulary Equity of Voice
Day 33 (Feb. 14) - Finish Summative Tasks & Collect Notebooks & Garden time

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Not updated below here....

discuss King tides 




Marine Biologist for a Week - MiniUnit
Day 1 - Scientists do research on their topic (Block Day)

Topics:
1.  Great Pacific Garbage Patch - G
2. Loss of Sea Ice in Arctic - B
3. Ocean Dead Zones - B
4. Ocean Becoming More Acidic - P
Science in the News Summary

Day 2 - Summit
Scientist report out about their findings
Rating daily activities and how they impact the marine environment

Teacher Resources

Relative and absolute humidity video

Videos

The Small Water Cycle
Small water cycle (teacher resource) -
40 million acres of turf in the US, that's 2% of the land = 4 times more land than corn; very shallow roots; largest irrigated crop in the US; 60 million acre feet/ year goes to watering turf  (1 acre foot =  = an acre one foot deep ) = 4 times more than hay and as much as the top 7 water using crops combined; watering lawn is 52-75% of home water use in summer

Winds
Earth wind patterns - spectacular visual of global winds
Bill Nye Wind
Global winds animations
Wind patterns
Local Winds video
Coriolis Effect video - kids on a merry-go-round (hosted on YouTube - watch at home)
Coriolis Effect video - teachers demonstrating on a flat spinning surface the apparent curvature (YouTube video)


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