Weather and Water Investigation 1: What is Weather?

Objectives/Concepts 1.Use weather instruments to measure temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed 2.Weather is the condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a given time in a given place. 3.Severe weather has the potential to cause death and destruction in the environment.

In your notebook… 1. What is weather? 2. What factors would you need to consider if you were going to describe or forecast weather? **Turn to partner and share your thoughts

Hurricanes 1.What is a hurricane? 2.What conditions are necessary for a hurricane to form? 3.What kind of damages occur during hurricanes? 4.What are some things people have done to try to lessen hurricane damage?

Meteorology? What is it?

If time…  Read Naming Hurricanes in green book pg. 3-4

Weather and Water Investigation 1 Part 2

Mission  Use weather instruments to measure temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed over the next 8 days  Each group of 4-5 students will go at the beginning of every Science class and record the data in notebook

Weather-Data Resources   Read “Weather Tools” pg 5  List each instrument and what they measure in notebook **Take instruments outside and explore **Take instruments outside and explore

Data Sheet Class 1 media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls

Data Sheet Class 2 media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls media/WeatherandWater/FOSS_weather_c hart.xls

Severe Weather pgs Create a Tree Map with 9 branches (the main sections of the reading) answer the questions what, where and example