What Makes the Weather Change?

Reading 1 - What Can Clouds Tell Us About the Weather?

Learning Targets

• Students will collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses result in changes in weather conditions.

Success Criteria

• I can read for information about a topic
• I can evelop questions about why weather varies and what causes weather.

Storms around the world...

When we analyzed the data from our cities we found that in several places there were storms, but why weren’t storms everywhere if the same conditions are everywhere?

• Why does this happen?
• Are these conditions causes of the weather, effects of the weather, or both?
• Do you think these conditions interact in some way to create weather events?
• Is the weather here the same today as it was yesterday?
• Is there a pattern to when storms occur in our area?

• Why do you think weather varies?
• What causes weather?
• What was happening in each of these storms we observed at the beginning of class? What conditions were present?
• Do you think these conditions can help predict what will happen with the weather?
• What do you know about wind?
• What is temperature?