Oceans, Climate, and Weather - 0 views
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Kimberly Lightle on 27 Apr 09This publication is all about developing your middle school students' understandings of earths oceans and the major effect they have on climate. Understanding and interpreting local weather data and understanding the relationship between weather and climate are important first steps to understanding larger-scale global climate changes. Activities that ask students to collect and analyze local weather data as well as analyze global data can be found in the Lessons and Activities section. Analyzing and interpreting data is a major focus of this publication. Numerous data sets can be found in the Sources for Real Data section. The Background Information section and the article Tomorrows Forecast will help reinforce your own content knowledge.
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Kimberly Lightle on 27 Apr 09More exemplary resources from the Middle School Portal 2: Math & Science Pathways project.