Day 1
Objective - 2.5.1a Summarize information from charts and graphs regarding layers of the atmosphere, temperature, chemical composition, and interaction with radiant energy.
Vocabulary - troposphere stratosphere ozone heat temperature radiant energy conduction convection
Presentation - 2.5.1 Structure and Comp of Atmosphere
Interactive Lecture Notes - 2.5.1 Structure and Comp of Atmosphere
Activity - Vertical Profile Lab
Day 2
Objective - 2.5.2a Explain how air masses move (pressure differentials).
Vocabulary - air mass isobar jet stream
Presentation - 2.5.2 Air Pressure and Wind
Interactive Lecture Notes - 2.5.2 Air Pressure and Wind
Activity - 2.5.2a Isoline Lab
Day 3 - SUB DAY
Objective - 2.4.1c Evaluate the effects of population growth on potable water resources. Infer future effects. 2.4.2b Analyze how drinking water and wastewater treatment systems impact quantity and quality of potable water.
Vocabulary - potable wastewater treatment system
Activity - 2.4.1c; 2.4.2b Local Water Supply Planning (activity)
Day 4
Objective -2.5.4c Explain the importance of water vapor and its influence on weather (clouds, relative humidity, dew point, precipiation).
Vocabulary - relative humidity, dew point
Presentation - Water Vapor, Fronts, and Severe Weather
Interactive Lecture Notes - Water Vapor, Fronts, and Severe Weather
Activity - Isoterm and Isobar Lab
Day 5
Objective - 2.5.2b Explain how interactions of air masses form frontual boundaries, clouds, and affect wind patterns.
Vocabulary - Isotherm, Front
Presentation - Water Vapor, Fronts, and Severe Weather
Interactive Lecture Notes - Water Vapor, Fronts, and Severe Weather
Activity - Fronts Comprehension Check
Day 6
Objective -2.5.3a Explain factors that affect air density and understand their influence on winds, air masses, fronts and storm systems. 2.5.3b Use data to substantiate explanations and provide evidence of various air mass interactions.
Vocabulary - Tornado, Hurricane, Eye Wall, Eye, Storm Surge
Presentation - Water Vapor, Fronts, and Severe Weather
Interactive Lecture Notes - Water Vapor, Fronts, and Severe Weather
Activity - Fronts Comprehension Check
Day 7
Objective -2.5.3a Explain factors that affect air density and understand their influence on winds, air masses, fronts and storm systems. 2.5.3b Use data to substantiate explanations and provide evidence of various air mass interactions.
Weather and Air Mass Quiz
Raging Planets: Hurricane Video
Day 8
Objective - 2.5.5a Explain how acid rain is formed and how human activities can alter the pH of rain. 2.5.5b Infer other human activities that impact the quality of atmospheric composition. (eg aerosols, chlorofluorocarbons, burning, industrial byproducts, over farming, etc) 2.5.5c Exemplify methods to mitigate human impacts on the atmosphere.
Video - Air Quality - Pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvphJO8VKlc
Activity - Ozone in Atmosphere and Ozone in Troposphere Comic
Concepts that students must cover in their cartoon booklets, not necessarily in this order:
1. Formation of ozone at ground level:
• What is ozone? [a molecule made of three oxygen atoms]
• What are the necessary ingredients for ground-level ozone? [nitrogen oxides, volatile organics, sunlight, heat]
• Where do these ingredients come from? [nitrogen oxides come from car exhaust, industrial processes, coal-fired electricity generation; volatile organics come from man-made sources such as industrial processes and gas stations and from natural sources such as trees; sunlight and heat come from the sun]
• What are some of the problems caused by ground-level ozone? [respiratory problems, damage to plants and crops]
2. Destruction of ozone in the stratosphere:
• What is ozone? [a molecule made of three oxygen atoms]
• How does the ozone layer in the stratosphere protect us? [absorbs damaging UV radiation from the sun]
• What are CFCs and where do they come from? [chlorofluo-rocarbons; they were used in aerosols and as refrigerants; although they aren’t used anymore, it will take years for them to break down in the stratosphere]
• How do CFCs destroy ozone in the stratosphere? [UV radiation knocks a chlorine atom off a CFC molecule; the chlorine atom steals an oxygen atom from an ozone molecule].
Day 9
Review Day - https://jeopardylabs.com/play/25-atmosphere-5
Quizlet Card - https://quizlet.com/_7dtm8g
Day 10
Test Day