Weather Wise : A Virtual Exploration Guide to Weather and Climate
Classroom Resource for Teachers
Weather Wise : A Virtual Exploration Guide to Weather and Climate
Classroom Resource for Teachers
With downloadable activity sheets and exercises, and the use of the Internet, students increase their awareness of the consequences of global warming by exploring common elements of weather, the greenhouse effect, and climate
change. Emphasis is placed on what we can all do to slow down the production of greenhouse gases and the resulting environmental damage.
Weather Wise: A Virtual Exploration Guide to
Weather and Climate can be downloaded as independent modules. Worksheets for the modules can be reproduced as necessary for your classroom.
You can also download the entire Guide as a single file.
(.pdf file (1,006 Kb))
Modules
Introduction (.pdf file (282 Kb))
Find out what this Virtual Exploration Guide can do for you! This section also includes references and curriculum links.
Weather (.pdf file (334 Kb))
Discover the basic elements that make up weather and the instruments used to measure them. Learn how weather data is collected and how meteorologist forecast tomorrow’s weather. The topics include:
Weather elements
Weather instruments
Forecasting and the weather network
Global Warming (.pdf file (384 Kb))
Find out why our planet is warming up. Explore the concept of global warming and examine the basic principle of the greenhouse effect. The topics include:
Get the complete Weather Wise Virtual Exploration Guide here!
Get all the modules and worksheets in one convenient file. (.pdf file (1,006 Kb))
How to View and Print the Exploration Guide Separate modules of our Exploration Guide are provided as Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
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With downloadable activity sheets and exercises, and the use of the Internet, students increase their awareness of the consequences of global warming by exploring common elements of weather, the greenhouse effect, and climate
change. Emphasis is placed on what we can all do to slow down the production of greenhouse gases and the resulting environmental damage.
