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Land Map for Mountain Ranges
Students use a map to connect weather patterns with mountain ranges on a land map
Use land maps to demonstrate how mountain ranges affect weather and climate.
Land Map worksheet

Latitude and Longitude
Connection with weather patterns and latitude/longitude
Compare the climates of coastal and inland areas at similar latitudes to demonstrate the ocean’s impact on weather and climate.
Latitude and Longitude chart and worksheet

Writing prompt
Student support in literacy for opinion writing prompt. This prompt asks the student to use information provided in a visual context (i.e. maps) to write an opinion piece to help a parent decide whether to move to the leeward or windward side of Oahu. Prior to beginning this piece, student instruction for science GLE 0507.8.1 begins with the student creating an informational brochure for tourists traveling to either Australia or the Sierra Nevadas. Both of these locations have distinctive activities and terrain associated with the leeward and windward sides. Students would search for information about the activities for tourists on both the leeward and windward areas. The brochure template is uploaded in the documents area to the right. The front of the trifold could be a beautiful picture of the chosen area- this could be cut out, printed, or drawn. The inside of the trifold includes a place to list activities. The larger inside full sheet is for the student to draw a map of the area that includes leeward, windward, legend items and labels. The back is for student information and there's a discretionary area left blank.
http://www.tncore.org/english_language_arts/writing_test.aspx





Use weather maps of the United States to graph temperature and precipitation for inland and coastal regions.
Atmosphere external image flp.jpg external image pdf.jpg plus climograph 1data & worksheet, climograph 2 data & worksheet, climograph 3 data & worksheet



Use local environmental information to analyze how weather and climate are affected by landforms and bodies of water.
Laboratory activity, Weather Station Class Project including rubric, Latitude and Longitude chart andworksheet


NOVA
Interactive mountain weather
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kilimanjaro/weat-flash.html

Project Britain
The Mountain Climate
http://www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk/homework/mountains/climate.htm

PALM task
Students will read and interpret the information from a barograph from a major winter storm.
http://palm.sri.com/palm/tasks/6-8/Blizzard93/index.html