Next up is our weather unit! To begin, students will learn about winds.  Students will use their knowledge of temperature, density and freshly learned pressure to understand how global winds form.  

Today, students completed a P.O.E. (Predict, Observe, Explain) using a convection box demonstration.  They also had to draw a diagram showing the movement of air.  Here are some pictures of the demonstration!

Afterwords, students were assigned a three part class/homework assignment.  Students are presented with three images: the convection box from class, a flat image of the earth showing the Equator and North Pole, and a globe.  Students are to indicated the hot/cold locations, draw arrows of air movement, and explain why air moves that way.

Next class, students will learn about the Coriolis force and how this causes the wind patterns on Earth.

To finish up the air pressure unit, students had to display their knowledge on either a sheet of paper or a poster. 
To show off the experiment they designed, students were required to:
1) Draw a picture of their experiment
2) Explain their experimental setup
3) Graph their data
4) Explain and trends or inconsistencies from their graph
5) Explain how temperature and pressure are related
To show students fully understood pressure, students had to choose one of the demonstrations from class and
1) Draw a picture of the demonstration
2) Explain the picture in words
3) Explain what is happening.  Students had to explain how their experiment helped them understand the demonstration.

Below are some examples of student work!!