December 18-22

Happy Holidays. Enjoy your time off, relax, and come back refreshed and motivated to learn.
Happy New Year, 2007!

Monday 12-18-06
Activity: Online hurricane tutorial.
Homework: STUDY for ch 8 test, Complete the study guide (get it signed for 5 points)
Websites:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml

http://www.middleschoolscience.com/hurricane.htm

http://www.middleschoolscience.com/hurricanes.htm

http://teachertech.rice.edu/Participants/louviere/hurricanes/activities.html

Tuesday 12-19-06
Activity: track hurricanes on paper and online
Homework: STUDY for ch 8 test, Complete study guide and chapter review for test.
Websites:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/hurtrack/index.html

Wednesday 12-20-06
Activity: Jeopardy and “eggspert” review.
Homework: STUDY
Websites:

Thursday 12-21-06
Activity: Weather test
Websites:

Friday 12-22-06
Activity: The Day After Tomorrow video. Write a summary about the weather related events that led to the mini ice age.
Websites:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/dayaftertomorrow/large.html

http://www.dayaftertomorrowfacts.org/

December 11 - 15

Monday 12-11-06
Activity: Quiz on relative humidity. SMART board lesson on weather fronts. Teacher demonstration of a front.
Homework: Write a song that compares cold fronts and warm fronts.
Websites:
http://okfirst.ocs.ou.edu/train/meteorology/Fronts.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/weather_fronts.html

http://earthsci.org/processes/weather/weaimages/weaimages.html

Tuesday 12-12-06
Activity: Dew Point lab, “The Tilted Earth” activity and “The Earth’s rotation activities.
Websites:
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/idm3020/tut_folder/nick_tutorial/

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://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/idm3020/tut_folder/nick_tutorial/

Wednesday 12-13-06
Activity: Reading weather maps
Homework: SG 8-2
Websites:
http://www.mohonasen.org/staffdev/weather5/weathermaps.htm

Thursday 12-14-06
Activity: Surface air pressure and isobars activity
Homework: Practice reading isobars
Websites:
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_pressure

Friday 12-15-06
Activity: United Streaming clip of how a thunderstorm forms and how tornadoes form. Teacher demo of tornado in a bottle.
Homework: SG 8-3
Websites:
http://members.aol.com/tornadfoto/

http://whyfiles.org/013tornado/3.html

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/thunder2.html

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/tornado2.html

http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/dangerwx/tstorm1.htm

http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/dangerwx/tornado1.htm