Rationale For The Lesson On Weather Change

Confirm achievement with the learner and plan the next assessment by returning to stage one. Identify any implications for learning, assessment and progression.

In Week Three through Week Eight, you conduct scientific experiments in an online lab environment. The content of the labs vary with each week but the structure remains the same. This week, review your Week Three lab instructions and assignment to become acquainted with the essential elements of each lab. You are not required to complete the actual lab this week, but rather to locate various pieces of information about the labs to help prepare for completion of the labs in Week Three through Week Eight.

Growing up, we all went through the water cycle lesson and we will never forget it. The reason being, we encounter the water cycle throughout our entire life and it will always effect our systems and more importantly our water system. As illustrated in the picture, our water cycle includes the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, which then goes to many places. During evaporation, the sun is used as a main power to make this happen. The sun’s rays beat down onto the ground creating all of the moisture and water to fizzle into a gas state into the atmosphere and get stored away into the clouds. When it is stored into the clouds it is condensing. Condensation means that the gas is again forming itself back into its liquid state to get ready to return to Earth. The condensation then forms into precipitation. Precipitation comes in many different forms. You can see it as rain, snow, sleet, or hail making its way back to us. What happens to it then depends on the area. The water might end up as runoff, or become

Throughout the movie Twister, directed by Jan de Bont, we learned that the movie provides simularites and differences between what we learned in earth science class and the movie Twister. For example, in the movie Twister, the characters talk about weather as being revolved around climate change that involves swirl winds, wind speed changes, temperature changes, cloud changes, and precipitation changes. In earth science class though, we learned weather is a short abbreviation for the state of the atmosphere which constantly changes at a given time and place. In earth science class we learned that storm chasers are reporters who go out to specific places like Daytona Beach, Florida, and report plus broadcast breaking news of storms that

The hydrological cycle is where water is stored in places like oceans and ponds, and then evaporated. Next, the water is condensed. Finally, water is rained down as precipitation and accumulates in ponds and oceans. This cycle continues repeatedly. Human activities that are detrimental to this cycle

Weather and climate are separate but related terms. The term weather refers to short-run atmospheric conditions that exist for a

The water cycle represents how water is exchanged and cycled through Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere (2010 pg.1). Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are all three main factors within the water cycle. Evaporation occurs when a liquids surface changes to gas. For example, when water from rivers, oceans or lakes evaporate, it becomes water vapor. Condensation occurs when gas changes to a liquid. For example, clouds form when water vapor condescends. Precipitation is described as any liquid or solid water that falls to earth from above. A great and simple example would be rain, snow or hail (2010 pg.1). Within the water cycle, there are three states of water: solid, liquid and gas. Most of Earth’s freshwater is

“Weather is just weather. It’s never just rain” (44). If a setting in a story involves rain it’s not because outside was hot and all the water evaporated into the clouds and couldn’t hold anymore so it started to pour. I mean who would ever think of such a thing? Usually when a story contains raining it can mean the character is being “purified” or transformed. However with rain comes mud, which can cause the character to be more tainted then before. Rain is also associated with spring, which is a period of rebuilding and all the more imperatively, trust. Mist can include the wretchedness element, additionally disarray among characters and circumstances. Snow is generally as critical and negating as downpour. It can be spotless, welcoming, lively, or even warm (like a protecting blanket).However it can likewise be stark, serious, cold choking, and even grimy. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby and Daisy's get-together starts amidst a deluge which

Weather is the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. Weather can be classified as day to day temperature and precipitation activity, where climiate is average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. Weather occurs from temperature and moisture differences between one place and another. These differences can occur due to the sun angle at any particular spot. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the jet stream. Weather systems in the mid-latitudes, such as "extratropical cyclones", are caused by instabilities of the jet stream flow. Because the Earth's axis is tilted

In conclusion, I chose this Citizens Science Project for my future classroom because of the benefits it will give my students. I believe that each student will be a scientist and will prepare them for observing higher education labs, without the intimidation that can happen to many students. This project will help scientists make predictions about natural disasters and weather patterns, while simultaneously helping boost my students’ confidence and interest in science and the world going on around

Tell students to think of one time they have seen a chemical change in their

Teaching a parent or grandparent is much different as our goal isn’t to “get them hooked on science” but more to just teach them the lesson. One thing I’ve noticed when teaching an adult is that they become less interested with the teaching the more childish it is. So basically, Bill Nye would not work. So I found another video online that would teach adults the Hydrologic Cycle perfectly. It is a video from NASA. This video contains all the information they would need to master what the hydrologic cycle is, while including visual evidence, yet at the same time not being too childish. The

When you hear the words “climate change” what comes to mind? Probably weather and the changes. Many of us watch the news or use an app on our cellphones/electronic devices to keep an eye on the weather for the day, week, or even the month. But, there is actually a difference between weather and climate. Weather is actually “the changes we see and feel outside from day to day. It might rain one day and be sunny the next. Weather also changes from place to place” (Dunbar, 2014). Whereas “climate is the usual weather of a place. Climate can be different for different seasons. Different places can have different climates” (Dunbar, 2014). This paper will focus on the ins and outs of climate change, specifically focusing on what climate change

Over the years there has been a lot of controversy on if climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed and solved. There is a constant debate among scientist on if human actions are contributing the changing of earth’s climates. Climate change is defined as the change in average weather patterns for a specific region or Earth as a whole. This could include the change in an average temperature for a city or the amount a rainfall it receives (Dunbar, 2015). The main difference between weather and climate is the period of time specific patterns are recorded. Weather patterns are looked at over a much shorter period of time, meaning that these patterns are going to be more sporadic and change more frequently. Climate on the other had is recorded over a much longer period of time and usually show less drastic changes in patterns when compared to weather. Some people may argue that climate change is not an issue because Earth’s temperature is always changing do to natural effects. What people don’t realize is that human activity has effected the rate that earth’s temperature is changing, and just the smallest changes can lead to drastic consequences (Dunbar, 2015).

They are given several minutes to explore. Students must find a desirable question to research and conduct the experiment based on their observations.