BHS Earth Science Guide

Meteorology

Earth Science

Quarter 3

McGraw Hill Module 9

VOCABULARY

● Continental/Maritime ● Polar/Tropical ● Fronts

● Coriolis effect ● Polar Easterlies ● Prevailing westerlies ● Trade winds ● Jet streams

● Air pressure ● Low pressure ● High pressure

● Cold front ● Warmfront

● Latitude ● Axis Tilt ● Elevation ● Albedo

● Stationary Front ● Occluded front

K-12 LEARNING PROGRESSIONS (via USBE Core Guides)

Standard 3.4

END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE SUPPORTS

Standard 3.4 Organizing Data Students organize data that represents: ● measurements of changes in hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, or geosphere in response to a change in Earth’s surface. ● Students describe* what each data set represents. Identifying Relationships Students use tools, technologies, and/or models to analyze the data and identify and describe relationships in the datasets, including: ● The relationships between the changes in one system and changes in another (or within the same) Earth system; and ● Possible feedback, including one example of feedback to the climate. ● Students analyze data to identify effects of human activity and specifc technologies on Earth’s systems if present. Interpreting Data Students use the analyzed data to describe a mechanism for: ● The feedback between two Earth’s systems and whether the feedback is positive or negative, increasing (destabilizing) or decreasing (stabilizing) the original changes. ● Students use data to predict weather based on observed patterns. *When “describe” is referenced, any of the following descriptions could be used: written, oral, pictorial, and kinesthetic.

DIFFERENTIATION IN ACTION

Skill Building

STEM Unit Project- Have students apply what they learned in their module to their Unit Projects

Extension

Data Analysis Lab: How do you analyze a weather map? (p. 248)

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS