This lesson contains 19 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
INDIVIDUALLY
Slide 1 - Slide
What is wind and how does it occur? ¿Qué es el viento y cómo se produce?
Slide 2 - Open question
How do clouds form? ¿Cómo se forman las nubes?
Slide 3 - Mind map
With a partner discuss what you wrote
Together, you will guys will submit a response to the following questions
Slide 4 - Slide
What do you know about precipitation? What causes rain? What causes it to snow? ¿Qué sabes de la precipitación? ¿Qué causa la lluvia? ¿Qué hace que nieve?
Slide 5 - Open question
What do you remember about how hurricanes start in western africa?
Slide 6 - Slide
What do you remember about how hurricanes start in western Africa?
Slide 7 - Open question
Slide 8 - Slide
Slide 9 - Video
With your lab groups…
You will have 6 minutes with your lab group to observe several different maps of weather variables.
Your job is to observe the maps and identify patterns between them. Su trabajo es observar los mapas e identificar patrones entre ellos.
You should be saying things like “I notice that...” (EXAMPLE: what do you observe happening where there is high pressure?"
One person in your group should be writing down what you're observing on a whiteboard
In the last minute (minute 5) you will will type the patterns that you observed
Slide 10 - Slide
What patterns did you observe?
Slide 11 - Mind map
What patterns do you notice in the temperatures and moisture content of the air masses on the map? ¿Qué patrones observas en las temperaturas y el contenido de humedad de las masas de aire que se muestran en el mapa?
Slide 12 - Open question
Demonstration
What did you observe?
What explanations are there for what you observed?
We will monitor the water as class continues
Slide 13 - Slide
turn to the back page of your worksheet, where it says "watch it!" We will do this together.