6th Grade Science Guide

Unit 4 6.3 Weather & Climate 3 Dimensions & Progressions

climate and weather.

Activity: What are Clouds?

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Students read about

● Reading

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are influenced by interactions that involve the sun using a model.

cloud formation and why clouds form, and how they can determine the weather.

Activity: Pressure, Temperature and Mass Investigation

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Lesson Plan ● Fizz Keeper Pumps ● Thermometers ● 2 L pop bottles

● Students investigate the relationships between temperature, and mass of air as it is being compressed

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are influenced by interactions that involve the sun using a model.

Activity: Flat Bottom Clouds

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Lesson Plan ● Fizz Keeper Pumps ● Thermometers ● 2 L pop bottles ● Sling psychrometers or regular psychrometers

● Students will form a

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are influenced by interactions that involve the sun using a model.

cloud in a bottle, find the dewpoint and relative humidity of air at different places in the school and use a chart to estimate how high that air would have to rise to form a cloud.

Activity: Air Masses and Fronts

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Lesson Plan ● Corn syrups ● Water ● Plastic Containers

● Students will make a model of air mass movements using corn syrup and water.

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are influenced by interactions that involve the sun using a model.