A.+Weather+vs+Climate+Lesson

Lesson Code (Course - Master Objective # - Benchmark # - Lesson # - #)
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Title - Author
 * Andy Hope, Deborah Siebern, Diana Grier, and Julia Chambers ||

Benchmark/Expectation/Concept/Process/Skill
 * Differentiate between weather and climate· ||

Relevant Goals
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[|Process] || [|Show-Me]

[|Science Content] || [|Missouri]

[|Science //G(C)LE(s)//] || [|SJSD] || National

([|5-8], [|9-12]) ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SC-1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ES. 2.F.7. g || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5-8 ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Learning Path
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Previous Learning || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Targeted Learning || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Future Learning ||
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.2.F.5. a. Identify and use appropriate tools (i.e., thermometer, anemometer, wind vane, rain gauge, satellite images, weather maps) to collect weather data ( i.e., temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, cloud type an cover. )

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.2.F.5. b. Identify and summarize relationships between weather data (e.g., temperature and time of day, cloud cover and temperature, wind direction and temperature) collected over a period of time. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.2.F.7.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a. Explain how the differences in surface temperature, due to the different heating and cooling rates of water and soil, affect the temperature and movement of the air above
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">b. Describe the characteristics of air masses (i.e., high/low barometric pressure, temperature) and predict their effect on the weather in a given location
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">c. Identify weather conditions associated with cold fronts and warm fronts
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">d. Identify factors that affect weather patterns in a particular region (e.g., proximity to large bodies of water latitude, altitude, prevailing wind currents, amount of solar radiation, location with respect to mountain ranges)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">e. Collect and interpret weather data (e.g., cloud cover, precipitation, wind speed and direction) from weather instruments and maps to explain present day weather and to predict the next day’s weather
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">f. Describe the significant changes in temperature and barometric pressure may cause dramatic weather phenomena (i.e., severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">g. Differentiate between weather and climate.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify factors that affect climate (e.g., latitude, altitude, prevailing wind currents, amount of solar radiatio || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.1.D.9-11 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a.Provide evidence (e.g., melting glaciers, fossils, desertification) that supports theories of climate change due to natural phenomena and/or human interactions <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> b.Explain how climate and weather patterns in a particular region are affected by factors, such as proximity to large bodies of water or ice/ocean currents, latitude, altitude, prevailing wind currents, and amount of solar radiation

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.2.F.9-11


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Predict the weather at a designated location using weather maps (including map legends) and/or weather data (e.g., temperature, barometric pressure, cloud cover and type, wind speed and direction, precipitation)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discover and evaluate patterns and relationships in the causes of weather phenomena and regional climates (e.g., circulation of air and water around the Earth, movement of global winds and water cycles due to solar radiation) ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Possible Misconceptions
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">·Weather and Climate are the same thing. ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher Notes
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Engage: Engages the learner’s mind in the concept, process, or skill to be learned, and makes connections between prior experiences and the current learning goals.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore: Provides or creates a common experience for all learners and helps the teacher identify the prior knowledge of each learning to build on. This stage allows time for the learner to explore their ideas. This stage should be concrete and meaningful to the learner.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explain: Allows the learner to construct an explanation (claim à evidence à reasoning). The teacher provides information in common terms to increase the accuracy of the explanation. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ||
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Elaborate: Pushes learner understanding, building on current understanding to increase the depth and breadth of understanding. Allow the learner to extend and apply the concepts, processes, or skills. Allows learner to experience new situations to apply to their learning.
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">· Formative Assessment(s): ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate: Provides and opportunity for the learner to assess their own understanding and be able to demonstrate the depth and breadth of that understanding to others. Teacher assesses the learner’s level of understanding and mastery.
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