Zixth Grade

Important Announcements:

• Abstinence Training parents meeting 8 AM, Wednesday, October 8. A representative from Arizona Youth Partnership will speak with parents about their program and answer any questions. Students will participate in the program October 20-24.
• We’re bumping the Chapter 6 test! We will continue with the test the week of October 27. With all the work we did with sling psychrometers last week, we didn’t have time to read through all of the weather chapters.
• Sorry for the downtime. Edublogs.org upgraded their service, and we lost access this weekend. Everything should be up and running even faster than before.

And now…

This week, we answer the question How can you track severe storms? We’ll put together our understanding of high and low pressure, warm and cold fronts, and data analysis to find out how meteorologists and scientists track and predict severe storm movement.

Objectives:

• Understand how to track the path of a hurricane.
  
• Understand how weather is forecast.
  
• Describe different types of severe storms.

Vocabulary:

• thunderstorm
• tornado
• hurricane
• blizzard

Assignments:

• Hurricane Tracking map and conclusions
• Worksheet RS 52-53