1. Agenda: Lesson 6 – Temperature, Pressure, & Cloud Formation
March 25, 2016
Objective: I will be able to identify different cloud types and know the weather generally associated with each.
Success Criteria: I can identify Stratus, Cumulus, Cirrus, and Cumulonimbus clouds when I see them in the atmosphere.
Entry Task
Read “The Truth About Air” pgs 76-77
Take out Student Sheet 6.4 (get one off the front counter if your were absent)
Weather Update
Agenda: Lesson 6 – Temperature, Pressure, & Cloud Formation
Inquiry 6.3
Review Student Sheet 6.4
Reflecting Questions 1 A-F
Cloud Types Notes
Homework: No Homework

2. Thursday Weather Map

3. Friday Weather Map

4. Weather Map Thursday - Friday

5. Today Temperature Map

6. Temperature Wednesday - Friday

7. Day 1

8. Day 2

9. Day 3

10. Jet Stream

12. Stratus Appearance: Sheets of low grey clouds Weather:
Light snow, rain, or drizzle.
Front: Warm

13. Stratocumulus Appearance: Thicker layer than stratus clouds. Weather:
They cause steady rain or snow.
Front: Cold

14. Cumulus Appearance: White, puffy clouds Weather: Good weather.
“Fair Weather Clouds”
Front: Cold

15. Cumulonimbus Appearance: Weather: Front: Cold Dark, towering clouds
Also called thunderheads
Weather:
Heavy rain, thunder, and lighting.
Possible Tornadoes
Front: Cold

16. Cirrus Appearance: Thin, featherlike clouds
Made of ice crystals high in the atmosphere.
Weather:
Indicates a change in the weather is coming.
Front: Warm