Meteorology

Energy Transfer Week 1 Day 1 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be able to read for information on energy transfer. Students will be able to answer questions about the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic spectrum pg 14 ESRT 2:10 Students will read and hi light 2 paragraphs on energy transfer and answer 15 questions pertaining to the reading. Students will use pg 14 ESRT “Electromagnetic Spectrum” to answer 17 questions. Assignment: Packet 10 Energy Transfer, mini lesson 1 : Energy transfer- Radiation pg 2-4

Different materials heat up & cool down at different rates due to the specific heat of the material

Specific Heat Week 1 Day 2 Objective: Tasks: Student’s will be able how to use the chart on specific heat on page 1 ESRT. Specific Heat pg 1 ESRT 2:10 Student’s will read a short description on specific heat and then answer 5 questions. Using the reference table, students will answer 11 questions pertaining to specific heat. ASSIGNMENT: Packet 10 Specific heat page 12-13

Review of energy transfer & Latent heat Week 2 Day 1 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be able to understand how energy is transferred and how the different characteristics of materials determine how fast the material will heat up and cool down. Students will be able to read for information on properties of water. Students will be able to use pg 1 ESRT Properties of water chart to answer questions. Energy transfer 6:10 latent heat 3:53 Students will watch 2 podcasts on energy transfer 6:20 & latent heat 3:53 Students will read and hi light a paragraph and then answer 5 questions. Assignment: Packet 10 Energy Transfer, mini lesson 3 : Properties of water pg 31 Using page 1 ESRT students will answer 6 questions. Assignment: Packet 10 , page 31

Angle of insolation

Angle of insolation Week 2 Day 2 Objectives: Tasks: Student’s will be able to understand how the angle of insolation affects the temperature of a location. Students will be able to see how 3 things can affect the angle of insolation. Student’s will watch a demonstration using a flash light (Sun) at different angles (3) above the surface of the overhead . one student will trace the paths of the light hitting the graph paper on the overhead. Another student will count how may squares on the paper received the light at different angles.  Students will discuss which area received the most intense sunlight and which received the least intense sunlight.

Greenhouse effect

Terrestrial radiation & the green house effect Week 2 Day 3 Objectives: Tasks: Students will understand that the Earth absorbs short wave radiation from the sun and radiates long wave radiation into our atmosphere. Greenhouse effect 4:44 Students will go over notes and diagrams with teacher on terrestrial radiation and the green house effect. Students will do over a regents WS on terrestrial radiation and green house effect. Students will be shown how to come up with the correct answer.  

Temperature conversions

Temperature conversions using pg 13 ESRT Week 2 Day 4 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be able read for information on temperature . Students will be able to use pg 13 ESRT to do temperature conversions Temp. conversions using pg 13 ESRT 1:27 (2:32) Students will read and hi light 3 paragraphs on temperature and answer 10 questions. Assignment: packet 11, Weather, mini lesson 1: temperature pg 2 Students will answer 5 questions using pg 13 ESRT and then do some temperature conversions. Assignment: Packet 11, meteorology, page 3 using pg 13 ESRT

Isotherms connect point of equal temperature

Dew point and Relative Humidity Week 2 Day 5 Objectives: Task: Students can answer constructed response questions. Students will understand what Dew point and relative humidity are. Students will learn how to use pg 12 ESRT DP & RH charts Dew pt & Rh 7:00 DP & RH chart pg 12 ESRT 6:16 Students will answer 6 constructed response questions on temperature. Assignment: Regents question WS: Temperature

Sling psychrometers & hygrometers are used to determine the wet bulb and dry bulb temp. for Dew pt & Rh

Determining the dew pt and Rh using pg 12 ESRT Week 3 Day 1 Objective: Tasks: Students will be able find the dew point temperature and relative humidity using pg 12 ESRT. Using a sling psychrometer 2:57 Students will learn how to use the DP and TH charts on pg 12 ESRT by following 17 steps. Students will do 2 practice examples with me.  Students will fill in the missing information on a chart of 20 examples . Some information will be given, based on the information students will determine the dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temp., difference between the 2 temps, dew point temp, or relative humidity. Assignment: Packet 11 Meteorology, Dew pt & Rh pg 12 ESRT activity, pg 8-10.  

Formation of clouds

Steps involved for a cloud to form Week 3 Day 2 Objectives: Tasks: Student’s will be able to understand the steps involved for cloud formation. Students will be able to read for information on air pressure.   Students will go over notes with teacher on cloud formation. Students will work with teacher answering 6 questions on DP,RH and clouds Assignment: Regents WS DP, RH & clouds  Students will read and hi light one paragraph and answer 7 questions. Assignment: Packet 11 Meteorology, Mini lesson 3 Pressure, pg 16

Barometers are used to measure air pressure

Barometric pressure & air pressure conversions Week 3 Day 3 Objective: Tasks: Students will be able to do pressure conversions using pg 13 ESRT. air pressure conversions using pg 13 ESRT 1:28-2:31 Students will follow 4 steps to learn how to use the pressure conversion chart on pg 13 ESRT. Students will do 8 pressure conversions and answer 2 questions . Assignment: Packet 11 meteorology, Pressure conversions using pg 13 ESRT activity, pg 17

Isobars connect points of equal air pressure.

Winds blow from high pressure towards low pressure

Wind Week 3 Day 4 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be able to read for information on wind. Students will be able to understand how a land breeze and sea breeze forms. Wind 7:53 Students will read and hi light 3 paragraphs and answer 10 questions. Assignment: Packet 11 Meteorology, Mini lesson 4 wind, pg 20   Students will answer 5 questions about temperature and pressure during the day over land and water. Then they will draw a convection current for a sea breeze. Students will answer 5 questions about temperature and pressure during the night over land and water. Then they will draw a convection current for a land breeze. Assignment: packet 11, Weather, Land and sea breezes, pg 21-22  

Global winds and the direction in which they move

Global winds and pg 14 ESRT Week 3 Day 5 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be able to understand how winds flow from high pressure to low pressure and in different directions with different pressure. Students will understand how to read and interpret the global winds diagram on pg 14 ESRT. Golbal wind belts using pg 14 ESRT 3:40 Students will go over notes on wind, high and low pressure systems Students will work on a regents WS on global winds

Air mass temperature and moisture depends on where it forms (geographic source region)

Air masses and Pg 13 ESRT Week 4 Day 1 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be to read for information on air masses and fronts. After reading that the characteristics of air masses depend on where the air mass formed, students will be able to look at a map and describe the air mass.   Students will read and hi light 3 paragraphs and then answer 8 questions pertaining to the reading. Assignment: packet 11 Meteorology, Mini lesson 5 air masses & fronts, pg 29 Students will determine the temperature and humidity of air masses based on the symbols of the air mass. Students will label different air masses on a map as continental, or maritime and tropical or polar based on where the air mass is geographically forming. Assignment: Packet 11 Meteorology, Air masses using pg 13 ESRT, pg 30

Fronts

Fronts and the weather associated with them Week 4 Day 2 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be able to draw and label the 4 different fronts. Students will be able to answer regents questions on fronts fronts Students will use pg 13 ESRT and follow 4 steps to draw and label each front. Assignment: packet 11 Meteorology, Fronts using pg 13 ESRT, pg 32-33 Students will answer 11 regents questions Assignment: Regents WS fronts  

Station models describe weather conditions

Station models and pg 13 ESRT Week 4 Day 3 Objective: Tasks: Students will be able to get information from station models and put information on station models. Station models and pg 13 ESRT 5:27 Students will convert air pressure in mb to a 3 digit number for the station model, following the rules given to them. Students will convert the 3 digit number on the station model to the actual air pressure in mb, following the rules given to them.  Students will answer some questions about the station model in the ESRT and then put information on a station model. Assignment: packet 11 Meteorology, Station models explanation pg 13 ESRT, pg 36-37

Interpreting station models and making station models Week 4 Day 4 Objectives: Tasks: Students will be given 6 station models in which the students will determine the values and units for all the weather conditions. Assignment: packet 11 Meteorology, Station models explanation pg 13 ESRT, pg 38 Students will be given the values for the weather conditions at 4 different models. Based on the information, students will create 4 station models. Assignment: packet 11 Meteorology, Station models explanation pg 13 ESRT, pg 39 Students will work on 24 questions on station models Assignment: regents WS station models   Students will be able to read a station model and given the information needed create a station model. Students will be able to answer regents questions correctly pertaining to station models.

Storms

How storms form Week 4 Day 5 Objective: Task: Students will be able to understand how Hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms and thunder storms form. Students will go over notes on all the storms.

Review :Using constructed response questions Week 5 Day 1 Objective: Task: Students will go over notes on all the storms. As a class we will work on constructed response questions on Meteorology. Assignment: Constructed response WS # 1-6 Meteorology

Review: Using constructed response questions Week 5 Day 2 Objective: Task: Students will be able to answer constructed response questions. As a class we will work on constructed response questions on Meteorology. Assignment: Constructed response WS # 7-11 Meteorology

Review: Using constructed response questions Week 5 Day 3 Objective: Task: Students will be able to answer constructed response questions. As a class we will work on constructed response questions on Meteorology. Assignment: Constructed response WS # 12-15 Meteorology