Unit 3: Weather

Friday, 11/30

Agenda:

1) NBQ

2) Finish your posters!

Opener:

Turn to your neighbor and compare your extreme weather types. How are they similar? How are they different?

Wednesday, 11/28

Agenda:

1) Extreme Weather Posters

No Opener! Wait for your number to be called so you can get your computer!


Tuesday, 11/27

Agenda:

1) Extreme Weather Posters

Stamps:

None today!

Opener:

Read this list of topics for your Extreme weather posters. Choose your top 2 choices.

  • Blizzards/Snow/Ice storms/Hail
  • Tornadoes
  • Hurricanes
  • Thunder and Lightning Storms and associate wild fires
  • Flooding
  • Droughts and associated wild fires
  • Extreme heat/heat waves
  • landslides/mudslides


Monday, 11/26

Agenda:

1) Extreme Weather Video & Notes (p. 35)

Stamps:

None today!

No Opener Today

Welcome back!

Tuesday, 11/20

Agenda:

1) Wind Bookwork

Stamps:

p. 32/33- Full of Air Stations

34- Wind

Wind

No Opener Today

Monday, 11/19

Agenda:

1) Full of Air Stations Lab

Stamps:

p. 34- Full of Air Stations

Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

Do you think the air INSIDE a hot air balloon is MORE or LESS dense than the air outside?

Explain your thinking. Draw a picture to show you ideas.

Thursday, 11/15

Agenda:

1) Finish Density Demos Activity

2) Weather Vocabulary Activity

Stamps:

p.32 Density

Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

An object will __________ in a liquid that is MORE _________ than it.

When air heats up, the atoms ________________.

When air expands, it becomes less ___________.

Wednesday, 11/14

Agenda:

Density Demos Activity

Stamps:

P. 33- Density Demos

density

Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

Draw what you think the particles of a rock look like.

Draw what you think the particles inside a balloon look like

Tuesday, 11/13

Agenda:

Full of Air Stations

Stamps:

P. 32- Full of Air Stations

Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

Look at your results from the Surface Heating Lab (p. 31)

Only copy this part:

Based on the reading on Friday, do your results make sense? Explain your ideas.

Thursday, 11/8

Agenda:

Surface heating lab

Stamps:

P. 31- Surface Heating

Weather Openers

Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

1) What type of energy comes from a heat lamp?

2) What type of energy transfer does it use?

Wednesday, 11/7

Agenda:

Water Processes

Stamps:

  • P. 30- Water Processes


Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

1) What is the word for the process where a gas turns directly into a solid?

2) This is an example of a ______________________ __________________________.

Tuesday, 11/6

Agenda:

1- Water Cycle Game

Stamps:

  • P. 29- Water Cycle Game

Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

You go fill up your waterbottle from the faucet. Where did this water come from?

Monday, 11/5

☔️⚡New Unit today! ☃️🌤

Agenda:

1- Set up Openers Page

2- 101 Uses for Water Activity

Stamps:

  • P. 28- 101 Uses for Water


Opener: Copy the question and answer on P. 27

Why is water important? Where does it come from?