TABLE OF CONTENTS - Lindbergh School District

Strand 5: Processes and Interactions of the Earth’s Systems (Geosphere, Atmosphere and Hydrosphere)
2. Earth’s Systems (Geosphere, Atmosphere and Hydrosphere) interact with one another
as they undergo change by common processes
Major Objectives IS Suggested Activities
These samples activities offer ideas and are
not meant to limit teacher or student
Concept F: Constantly changing properties of
the atmosphere occur in patterns which are
described as weather
Scope and Sequence – Weather & Climate
resourcefulness.
Suggested Assessments
These samples assessments offer ideas and are
not meant to limit teacher or student
resourcefulness
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
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a. Students will discover and evaluate the
patterns and relation-ships in the
circulation of air and water around Earth,
how they are driven by radiation energy
from the sun, and how this causes weather
phenomena and regional climates (1.6)
a. Using weather maps from a variety of
sources, students will predict the weather
as various weather system approach your
city. They will compare their predictions
with reality.
b. Recognize the characteristics of air masses
(i.e., high/low barometric pressure,
temperature) and predict their effect on the
weather in a given location
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b. Students will use weather products
(Internet weather maps/newspaper maps)
to show weather patterns associated with
air masses and fronts. (1.6)
b. Using a variety of resources, students will
work as a weather team to provide a daily
weather newscast to the class or school
(using school-wide television broadcast
technology)
c. Identify weather conditions associated with
cold fronts and warm fronts
c. Students will use weather products
(Internet weather maps/newspaper maps)
to show weather patterns associated with
air masses and fronts. (1.6)
c. Using a variety of resources, students will
work as a weather team to provide a daily
weather newscast to the class or school
(using school-wide television broadcast
technology)
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)
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d. Students will use global maps to
demonstrate the locations of polar/tropical
air masses and maritime/continental air
masses. (1.6)
d. Students will keep a daily log of weather
conditions for a 3-week period in which
daily observations of weather events are
correlated with a national weather map
and the air masses they show.
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
e. Students will keep a classroom weather
map current for a period of time as the
class tracks weather systems across the
United States. (1.6; 2.2; 2.6; 4.6)
e. Students will keep a daily weather map
updated in class (large, chalk erasable
map) that tracks weather nationally.
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