Weather Unit Resource
  • Welcome
  • Content Notes
  • Lessons & Activities
    • Day 1: What Do We Know About Weather?
    • Day 2: What Makes a Cloud?
    • Day 3: Types of Clouds
    • Day 4: Our Clouds
    • Day 5: Weather Forecasting
    • Day 6: Make It Rain
    • Day 7: It's Raining, It's Pouring!
    • Day 8: Huff, Puff, Blow!
    • Day 9: Which Way Will the Wind Blow?
    • Day 10: Weather Watchers
  • Books
  • Web Sites
  • Assessment

The Virginia Standard of Learning    

This unit will follow the SOL strand for "Interrelationships in Earth/Space Systems":

    2.6 The student will investigate and understand basic types, changes, and patterns of weather.  Key concepts include            
            a)  identification of common storms and other weather phenonmena;
            b)  the uses and importance of measuring, recording, and interpreting weather data

Understanding the SOL (background information for Teacher use only)

  • Earth's weather changes continuously from day to day
  • Changes in the weather are characterized by daily differences in wind, temperature, and precipitation.
  • Precipitation occurs when water, previously evaporated, condenses out of the air and changes its phase from a gas to a liquid (rain) or to a solid (snow or sleet).
  • Storms have powerful winds which may be accompanied by rain, snow, or other kinds of precipitation
  • Weather influences human activity
  • Scientists collect weather data over time to study trends and patterns. These trends and patterns help them to make future weather predictions

Relevant Weather Vocabulary

Air -- The atmosphere that surrounds the earth.
Air pressure -- The weight of the air as it presses on the surfaces of objects.
Temperature -- The measure of how cold or how hot someone or something is.
Wind speed -- How fast the wind is blowing.
Wind direction-- The direction from which the wind is coming.
Precipitation -- Water that falls to the earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet.
Thermometer -- A device used to measure temperature.
Anemometer -- A device used to measure wind speed.
Wind vane -- A thin, flat moveable piece of wood or metal that points in the direction that the wind is blowing.
Rain gauge-- A device used to measure rainfall.
Weather --The condition or activity of the atmosphere at any given time or place.
Water cycle -- The way water moves from the air to the land and back to the air.                                    
Water vapor -- Water that has changed into gas.                                                    
Evaporate -- To change from a solid or liquid into a gas; to disappear.                                               
Condensation -- The change of a substance from a gas into a liquid through cooling.                          
Cirrus -- A kind of cloud that is thin, feathery, and high in the sky.                                                    
Cumulous -- A  kind of cloud that looks like puffy white cotton.                                                               
Stratus -- A kind of cloud that is low and gray and stretches across the sky.                                            
Climate -- Weather that is typical for a certain place including temperature and amounts of rain or wind. 
Meteorologist -- Someoneho reports and forecasts weather conditions.                                                                           


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.