Learning Expectations:

Understanding concepts

• Understand that weather is day-to-day 
• Understand that climate is the long term average of weather
• Learn how to detect and measure change
• Recognize patterns and trends in order to predict 
• Explain how trapped air heats up upon exposure to light (the greenhouse effect)
• Understand and explain how climate change can cause both heating and cooling
• Understand how climate change can alter weather patterns including precipitation
• Suggest various methods of preparing for and/or minimizing the effects of climate change

Skills of inquiry, design, and communication

• Demonstrate an awareness of the scientific method  
• Classify and sort concepts 
• Observe with the senses and instruments 

Work with others

• Listen, record, and compare others’ observations 
• Make predictions
• Record observations, findings, and measurements using drawing, tables, and written descriptions
• Communicate the procedure and results of investigations using drawing and written descriptions
• Connect various ideas from observations and previous knowledge to understand new concepts

Relating science and technology to the outside world

• Relate scientific concepts to objects in their environment

Teaching Instructions Includes:

• At A GlanceTM – List of Skills
• Teacher Assessment Rubric 
• Student Achievement and Effort Rubric
• Introduction  
• Bibliography
• Materials 
• Vocabulary

Topic 1: Weather and Climate

What is Weather?

Climates of the World

Weather or Climate?

Weather Patterns Make Climates

Ask an Expert

Teacher Notes and Answer Key

Topic 2: Measuring Change

Measuring Change

Ideas of Change

Short Term Change and Long Term Change

Temperature Trends

Watering Changes

Teacher Notes and Answer Key

Topic 3: The Greenhouse Effect

Air Inventory

Can We Control Climate?

How Does a Greenhouse Work?

Clouds Over the Greenhouse

Greenhouses are Traps

Humidity

1. a) What is Humidity?  
2. b) Measuring Humidity

Air in the Greenhouse

Carbon Dioxide and Greenhouses 

A Natural Greenhouse

Teacher Notes and Answer Key

Topic 4: Heating and Cooling the Earth

The Color of Earth

Will the Earth Heat Evenly?

Water and Ice and Heat

Feedback

Moving Water in the Oceans

Changing the Current

Rising Seas and Shores 

Icebergs and Sea Level 

Glaciers and Sea Level

Teacher Notes and Answer Key

Topic 5: The Push and Pull of Climate Change

Relative Impact 

Local Affects Global 

Natural and Artificial 

Sources and Sinks

Debating Pollution

An Inconvenient Truth Graphing 

Are Clouds Good or Bad?

Cities and Climate 

Teacher Notes and Answer Key

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