Zixth Grade

We’re all about weather this week as we catch up on some book work. We will dig into the question What is weather?

Objectives:

• Investigate the effects of air pressure.
• Understand air masses and how they cause weather.
• Identify global wind patterns and other factors that affect climate.
• Cause and Effect: Look for causes of weather changes.

Vocabulary:

• air pressure
• relative humidity
• front
• climate
• warm front
• cold front
• nimbostratus clouds

Assignments:

• Relative Humidity investigation Summary
• RS 50-51 Worksheet
• Fan face self portraits for the Fall Hullabaloo.

What a week! We answered the question “What makes up the atmosphere?” by reading from the textbook, responding to questions on our reading support page, and even working with a globe and desk lamp to illustrate the sun’s impact on earth’s atmosphere.

We also started an investigation that we will summarize next week answering the question “What is weather?” Using sling psychrometers, each group measured the wet-bulb and dry-bulb temperatures of the air at various locations around our school.

Announcments:

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All student received their graded Chapter 5 assessments today. Students have the opportunity to take home a textbook and make corrections on any problems that were incorrect. They should write the correct answers and explanations (complete sentences, please) on a  piece of line paper to be turned in on Monday. Each corrected problem is worth half a point on the final score for the assignment.

We gave it a go and came up a little short on our planned activities for the week. With the technology lesson and a counselor lesson on Tuesday, the scheduled activities were postponed. We didn’t get to these assignments:

• Investigate: Layers of the Atmosphere lab report and graph on page 245
• Atmospheric layers diagram
• Reading Support 48-49

We’ll catch them next week and then move on to Lesson 2: What is weather?

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We’re half way through September and we’re ready to kick off a new unit: Earth’s Weather Patterns. This week we’ll work to answer this question: What makes up the atmosphere? If you come across any useful links, post them in the comment section to share with our classmates.

Objectives

• Map the composition of the atmosphere.
• Identify the layers of the atmosphere.
• Recognize how the sun affects the atmosphere.
• Main Idea and Details: Look for the details that describe the atmosphere.
• Technology: Create a plain text file and save it in a new folder on a networked drive.

Key Vocabulary

• atmosphere
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere

Assignments

• Investigate: Layers of the Atmosphere lab report and graph on page 245
• Atmospheric layers diagram
• Reading Support 48-49
• Plain text files saved on district server

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