6th Grade Science Guide

Unit 4 6.3 Weather & Climate 3 Dimensions & Progressions

landforms and living things. ● I can describe how your

location on Earth affects climate and weather. Activity: What are Clouds?

Objective

Overview

Materials

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are infuenced by

● Students read about cloud formation and why clouds form, and

● What are clouds?

interactions that involve the sun using a model.

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

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are infuenced by

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

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

● I can show how Earth’s weather and climate are infuenced by

● Students will form a cloud in a bottle, fnd the dewpoint and

interactions that involve the sun using a model.

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