8th grade- Weather Unit

Hi guys! We have finally completed our volcano unit. You did a great job planning, constructing and erupting your volcano models. It was great to watch you put into action and displaying what you learned in class. I hope this was a rewarding learning experience for you. I would love to hear your feedback about this activity and how it helped you learn. Let me know how you felt about a project based assessment vs. a written test style of assessment.

We are now ready to begin our weather unit. We are going to begin our unit by learning some of the basic fundamentals regarding weather. I will do another project based assessment for this unit as well. We will be given periodic quizzes to check for learning but your final test grade will be the information you gather from your own homemade weather station. As we progress into the unit we are going to make instruments that help measure various aspects of weather such as wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure, etc. We will be constructing our own mini weather stations! Using our weather stations we will monitor and record weather patterns. It sounds like a great learning experience, but I will need your help, cooperation and best behavior during this unit. We will be spending a lot of time outside observing the weather. If you are not on task and doing what is asked of you outside and over the course of this unit, we will not be able continue this unit doing hands on activities. Let's give this unit our BEST is all aspects, and really get the most out of this learning experience that we can! I know you can do it. Ok, I will quit preaching and get to the part that I know you are waiting for- Here are the links to some fun and informative weather sites I have found on the internet. If you happen to come across some great sites about weather post the web address in your comments to me and I will post them here for all of us to share and enjoy! Learning is fun! Let's begin having some fun learning about weather!

http://www.weather.com/

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/index.html

http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/airpressure.html

http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/dstreme/extras/wxsym2.htm

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/maps/sfcobs/home.rxml

http://www.meteor.wisc.edu/~hopkins/aos100/sfc-anl.htm

http://www.wxdude.com/

http://www.wildwildweather.com/

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/

http://www.cloudsrus.com/