Enduring Understandings:

• Weather conditions change and some changes are predictable.

• Weather describes conditions in the atmosphere at a certain place and time.

• Recording weather observations provides data that can be used to predict future weather conditions and establish patterns over time.

• The temperature and movement of air can be observed and measured to determine the effect on cloud formation and precipitation.

• Severe weather impacts our lives in many ways.

• Scientists believe that an increase in greenhouse gases, will increase severe weather patterns.

• Climate is influenced locally and globally by atmospheric interactions with land masses and bodies of water.

• Weather (in the short term) and climate (in the long term) involve the transfer of energy in and out of the atmosphere

 

Essential Question(s):

• How do we use science to help us deal with severe weather patterns?

• What factors or conditions create weather?

• How does meteorologist collect data using weather instruments?

• What causes changing weather conditions? How do scientists predict the weather?

• Why is understanding how weather forms important to our lives?

 

Standards:

 

NGSS - MS-ESS3-2. Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

 

 

CCSS - ELA/Literacy 

RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.

RST.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or conclusions of a text; provide an accurate summary of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions. RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

RST.6-8.9 Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained fromreading a text on the same topic.

WHST.6-8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.

SL.8.5 Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.

 

CCSS - Mathematics 

MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.