© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Thinking Like a Scientist © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Meteorology the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

“…all the affections we may call common to air, water, and In 350 B.C, Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, introduced the term meteorology as “…all the affections we may call common to air, water, and all the kinds and parts of the earth and the affections of its parts.” © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Aristotle is known as the father of meteorology. Although some of Aristotle's ideas about rain, hailstorms, and other kinds of weather were accurate, many were not. Like other thinkers of his time, he believed that logic and reason alone could lead to truth. © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Aristotle did not think it was necessary to observe the details of the natural world in order to understand it. © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Centuries passed before natural philosophers, as scientists were called in the early years of modern science, realized that to understand things that happened in the world around them, it was necessary to measure, record, and analyze them. © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

Aristotle would probably be amazed by today’s world of meteorology. © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Today’s weather scientist, or meteorologist, must have a highly specialized education from a college or university. Many meteorologists have degrees in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and other fields. © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative A meteorologist uses scientific principles to explain, understand, observe, or forecast the Earth's atmospheric phenomena and/or how the atmosphere affects the Earth and life on the planet. © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

Meteorologists use instruments to measure temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, and direction.

For the rest of this school year, you will explore meteorology as you observe and record the following: © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

Temperature in degrees Celsius of course!

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Precipitation: Liquid rain Solid snow sleet Hail Metric units only! © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Wind speed © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative

© Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative Now begin thinking like a meteorologist! © Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative