Galva High School and Stark County High School
Integrated Science Curriculum
Year 3: Theme - Grand DesignsVIII. Weather Unit (Chs 1, 2, 3)
A. Elements of weather
B. Weather prediction
- Temperature
- Activity 2-3: "Air temperature" (SEOF, pp. 1-2)
- Activity 2-15: "Calibrating a liquid thermometer" (SEOF, pp. 1-2)
- Activity 1-18: "Hot box" (SEOF, pp. 1-4)
- Lab 17: "Make a thermometer" (IWW, pp. 78-80)
- Humidity
- Minilab: "How wet is the air?" (SI, p. 25)
- Minilab: "Why does the grass get wet at night?" (SI, p. 27)
- Activity 2-8: "Dew formation" (SEOF, pp. 1-3)
- Investigation: "Relative humidity" (ES, p. 496)
- Lab 19: "Measuring humidity - make a psychrometer" (IWW, pp. 86-90)
- Barometric pressure
- Minilab: "Does the air exert pressure?" (SI, p. 74)
- Activity 2-2: "Air pressure" (SEOF, pp. 1-3)
- Lab 2: "Air pressure" (SILab, pp. 7-10)
- Investigation: "Air density and temperature" (ES, pp. 476)
- Investigation: "Barometric pressure" (ES,p. 458)
- Activity 2-5: "Making a barometer and using it" (SEOF, p. 1-3)
- Wind
- Investigation: "Windchill" (ES,p.510)
- Activity 2-18: "Wind" (SEOF, p. 1-3)
- Activity 2-1: "Wind vane" (SEOF, p. 1-3)
- Activity 2-4: "Making an anemometer & calibrating it" (SEOF, p. 1-4)
- Clouds
- Investigation: "Evaporation" (ES,p.527)
- Lab 1: "Clouds" (SILab,p. 1-6)
- Activity 2-7: "Cloud formation" (SEOF, p. 1-3)
- Lab 13: "How does your cloud grow?" (IWW, p. 61-63)
- Lab 14: "Make a cloud wheel" (IWW, p. 64-70)
C. Mapping and using weather data
- Weather forecasting
- Minilab: "How accurate is your weather forecaster? (SI, p. 23)
- bInvestigation: "Can you predict the weather?" (SI, pp. 42-43)
- Lab 21: "Weather recording & forecasting" (IWW, pp. 96-98)
- Radar
- Minilab: "Why does the sound of a moving object change?" (SI, p. 35)
1. Mapping weather data
D. Severe weather2. Using weather data
- Thinking lab: "What information should be represented on a " (SI, p. 38)
- Investigation: "aweather map interpretation" (ES, pp. 520-521)
- Activity: "Maps in action - Snapshots of the weather" (ES, pp. 540-541)
- Minilab: "What is the weather like around the country?" (SI, p. 41)
- Investigation: "Factors that affect climate" (ES, p. 538-539)
- Moving air (conduction, convection, radiation)
- Lecture: Heat transfer in air
- Minilab: "How does sunshine affect air?" (SI, p. 51)
- Investigation: "What affects solar radiation on Earth?" (SI, pp. 54-55)
- Minilab: "How does convection occur in a fluid?" (SI, p. 56)
Winds Air masses & fronts Pressure systems Types of severe weather E. Effects of storms
- Lab 7: "Simulationg a thunderstorm downdraft" (IWW, pp. 38-40)
- Lab 10: "Supercooled H20" (IWW, pp. 48-51)
F. Performance assessment: "Design a school weather station" (SI, p. 1H8) or "Produce your own~ television weather report" (SI, p. 109)
- Moving storms
- Minilab: "How fast do hurricanes move?" (SI, p. 83)
- Activity 2-16: "Tornado model" (SEOF, pp. 1-3)
- Lab 6: "Design a lightning calculator" (IWW, pp. 33-37)
- Agents of destruction
- Minilab: "How strong is a house?" (SI, p. 86)
- Minilab: "Why do bridges fail in high floodwaters?" (SI, p. 89)
- After the storm
- Thinking lab: "How have storms affected your local economy?" (SI, p. 94)
- Minilab: "What happens when salt water floods a freshwater ..." (SI, p. 98)
- Investigation: "How sensitive is an ecosystem?" (SI, pp. 100-101)
- Applying technology: "Emergency preparedness" (SI, p. 104)