December 4-8

Monday 12-4-06
Activity: Draw and label the stages of the water cycle. Use kinesthetic activity to help remember each stage of the cycle. Label each layer of the atmosphere. Evaporation and condensation experiment. Notebook Check.
Homework: water cycle wksht, atmosphere drawing, Quiz Wednesday on water cycle and atmosphere layers

Tuesday 12-5-06
Activity: Use the weather vane and the compass to determine wind direction. Check data by looking at local weather on the net.
Homework: Read 8-1, complete SG 8-1

Wednesday 12-6-06
Activity: Quiz on the atmosphere and the water cycle.
Homework: Names of Clouds puzzle

Thursday 12-7-06
Activity: “The Tilted Earth” activity and “The Earth’s rotation and revolution” activity. Wind belts and the Coriolis Effect.

Friday 12-8-06
Activity: “Relative Humidity” lab activity
Homework: Quiz Monday on relative humidity (practice solving relative humidity problems)

This week's websites:

EXTRA CREDIT: (Perform this experiment for the class):http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpMarshmallowPressure.htm

http://www.west.net/~science/co2.htm

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/wind1.htm

http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p1440.htm

http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/ExpCloudsInBottle.htm

http://schoolscience.rice.edu/duker/weatypeclouds.html

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml

http://www.carlwozniak.com/clouds/types.html

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/seasons.html

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/seasons1.html&edu=elem&back=/seach/search_navigation.html

http://www.learninghaven.com/science/articles/seasons.htm

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/skytellers/day_night/about.shtml

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

http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/humiditycalc.shtml?Dry_Bulb=23&Moist_value=15&Moisture=WB&rh=0

EXTRA CREDIT:http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/hair/hair_activity.html