1. Earth Science Unit Overview: Chapter 4 – Earth’s Water
Lesson 1 – Earth: The Blue Planet
Lesson 2 – The Water Cycle
Lesson 3 – Fresh Water Resources
Lesson 4 – California’s Water Supply
Chapter 5 – Earth’s Weather
Lesson 1 – Earth’s Atmosphere
Lesson 2 – Air Current and Wind
Lesson 3 – Ocean’s and Air Temperature
Lesson 4 – Severe Weather
Lesson 5 – Predicting Weather
Chapter 6 – The Solar System
Lesson 1 – The Sun
Lesson 2 – The Structure of the Solar System
Lesson 3 – Gravity and Orbit

2. Predicting the Weather
Lesson Overview:
1) What do we already know?
2) Vocabulary
3) Drawings
4) Main Ideas
5) Review
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3. Predicting the Weather What do we already know? BrainPOP Teaser
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Predicting the Weather What do we already know? BrainPOP Teaser
What causes severe weather?
a) A warm front and a cold front colliding. The condensation of water.
What causes thunderstorms?
a) A cold front moving into a warm front.
3) What are tornadoes?
a) A funnel shaped cloud with a low pressure closure.
3) Food Chain
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4. Predicting the Weather: Vocabulary Part I
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Predicting the Weather: Vocabulary Part I
1) forecast: to make your best guess before something happens (predicting weather).
2) meteorologist: a scientist who specializes in the study of Earth’s atmosphere and weather.
3) Weather map: shows the weather in a specific place at a specific time.
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5. Predicting the Weather: Drawings (pg. 279)
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Predicting the Weather: Drawings (pg. 279)
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6. Predicting the Weather: Drawings
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Predicting the Weather: Drawings
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7. Predicting the Weather: Drawings (pg. 282)
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Predicting the Weather: Drawings (pg. 282)
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8. Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
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Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
Who needs to know what the weather will be? (pg )
a) Meteorologist, people, farmers
Quick Check (pg. 279)
-Critical Thinking: What are symbols
you could use to show on a map what the weather is like?
a) Cold Front: line with triangles, Clouds: pictures of clouds, Warm Front: a line with mounds on it, Snow: snow flakes, Temperature: use different colors for different temperatures (red=hot & blue=cold), High Pressure system: H, Low pressure system: L, Rain: little dots or dashes, Cyclones: spiral or swirl, Wind: curvy dotted line.
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9. Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
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Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
2) What do weather fronts tell you?
(pg )
a) They tell you what the weather is going to be like in the future.
Quick Check (pg. 281)
-Compare and Contrast: How does what low
and high pressure systems tell you differ from
what warm and cold fronts tell you?
a) Warm and Cold fronts tell you weather is approaching. Low pressure signals warmer air and high pressure signals colder air.
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10. Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
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Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
3) What do lows and highs tell you?
(pg )
They tell us about what our local weather is like.
Quick Check (pg. 282)
-Critical Thinking: What is the difference between high and low pressure air masses?
a) A low pressure system is a large air mass with a low pressure center. A high pressure system is a large air mass with a high pressure center
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11. Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
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Predicting the Weather: Main Ideas
4) How do weather forecasters collect data? (pg. 284)
a) computers, satellites, radar, airplanes, weather balloons
Quick Check (pg. 284)
-Critical Thinking: Why does having additional
data help meteorologists make forecasts more
accurate?
a) It is important to look at many key factors to make accurate predictions.
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12. Predicting the Weather: Review
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Predicting the Weather: Review
Summarize the main ideas
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