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?

• What kinds of damage are caused by different types of severe 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-ESS2-5. Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.

• MS-ESS2-6 Develop and use a model to describe how unequal heating and rotation of the Earth cause patterns of atmospheric and oceanic circulation that determine regional climates.

• MS-ESS3-5.Ask questions to clarify evidence of the factors that have caused the rise in global temperatures over the past century.

  
   

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 from reading 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. 

 

Mathematics -

 

• MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 

• 6.NS.C.5 Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation. 

• 6.EE.B.6 Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem; understand that a variable can represent an unknown number, or, depending on the purpose at hand, any number in a specified set.

• 7.EE.B.4 Use variables to represent quantities in a real-world or mathematical problem, and construct simple equations and inequalities to solve problems by reasoning about the quantities.