Step 1:  To begin our unit on Weather & Climate, you will need to create a unit tab for your notebook.  Label it Weather & Climate.   On the front page (1), make an illustration for your weather & climate unit.  The illustration should represent what you know about weather and/or climate.   At the bottom of your illustration, explain what you think the difference is between weather & climate! Make these colorful please. 
Step 2:  PreAssessment- your answers should go on page 2.  

Red 8/21 White 8/22

Learning Targets: 
 I will collect daily weather data to interpret how it makes up the climate for an area. 
I will investigate how air masses effect the weather in an area.  
I will interpret local weather maps.   
Daily Agenda
Collect Weather Data (pg 3)
Create a Data Collection Table (pg 4)
Moving Masses (pg 5)
Step 1:   You will be collecting data on our daily weather patterns.  On page 3 you will tape in your weather watch collection sheets.  
Step 2:  Create a data table on page 4 in your notebook that looks like mine.  This is how you will collect the weather data after today.  You will have to go to the national weather service app above to access the highs and lows, pressure, etc.  
Step 3:  Pick up the Moving Masses table papers, read thoroughly and cut out the exercises.  Answer the questions on page 5 in your notebook.  

Red 8/25 & White 8/26

Learning Targets: 
1.  I will collect daily weather data to interpret how it makes up the climate for an area. 
2. I will investigate how air masses effect the weather in an area.  
3. Conduct an experiment that shows the relationship between greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.   
Daily Agenda
Collect Weather Data
Moving Masses Question Review
Label the Clouds
Greenhouse Effect Lab
Step 1:  On page 5, make sure that you have finished your moving masses activity and have answered the questions.  
Step 2:  Page 6 Guiding Questions:
1.  Using the graph above, which 3 gases make up most of the atmosphere?  
2.  What is the Greenhouse effect?  
3.  What gases are responsible for trapping heat?  
Step 3:  You will start a Greenhouse Effect Lab.  Pick up the table papers and follow the procedures.  Start a data table in your notebooks on page 7.  Label it Experiment 1, Regular air.  You will need an x and y T chart.  X = time intervals of 30 seconds, y = temp.  

Wednesday 8/27 & Thursday 8/28

Learning Targets:
1.   I will collect daily weather data to interpret how it makes up the climate for an area. 
2.  Conduct an experiment that shows the relationship between greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  
Agenda
GQ
Greenhouse Effect Lab
Reminder:  Quiz & Notebook Check on Friday
GQ Page 7
1.  What is the Earth's Albedo? 
2.  What can we do to increase the Albedo?  
Step 1: Follow the direction on your table papers for the Greenhouse Effect Lab.  On page 7 in your notebooks you should have an x/y t chart to record time and temperatures.  You will do this lab once with regular air for 15 minutes.  Record your ppm for CO2 before you begin. 
Calculate the rate of change in temperature.  
         Rate of Change= change in temp./change in time
Step 2:  Repeat the same experiment except this time adding CO2.  Record the ppm for CO2 before you begin.
Calculate the rate of change in temperature.  Compare the rates of changes with both experiments.   

 PictureAlone in a sealed jar, a mouse would die from exhaled CO2. But as scientist Joseph Priestley observed in 1771, adding a mint plant allows the mouse to thrive. In this proof of photosynthesis, the mint absorbed CO2, retained carbon for growth, and released oxygen.
Step 3:  Extension activity.  Try to reduce the rate of change in temperature.  Use the Engineering Design Process.  Collect the same data.  Compare.

Red day 9/2/14, White Day 9/3/14

Learning Targets
1.  Conduct an experiment that shows the relationship between greenhouse effect and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
2.  Conduct an experiment that shows the relationship between reflection/absorption of colors and the heating of the Earth.  
3.  Create a graph in excel that represents the data I have collected.

GQ
1.  Solve for the rate of change in temperature:
If I started my experiment at 70 degrees and in 20 minutes my temperature went up to 112 degrees,  what is the rate of change in temperature per minute?  Show me your work and keep your units!
Agenda
1.  Rate of change in temps, check
2 . Quiz
3.  Lab extensions with white and black paper and aluminum foil.
4.  Graph Data in Excel

Red 9/3 White 9/4

Learning Targets
1.  Create a graph in excel that represents the data I have collected and write a synthesis over what I think my data is saying. 
2.  Describe the carbon cycle and demonstrate how carbon moves from one reservoir to the next.  
Agenda
Grade Quizzes
Finish & Print Excel Graphs to turn in
Notebook Check
Carbon Cycle Game
Step 1:  Create your graphs in excel.  Print them off with my help.  
Step 2:  Write an analysis that interprets your data for you.        a.   Discuss the purpose of this experiment. 
       b.  How much CO2 did you have in the first experiment v/s the second?  
       c.  Describe your hypothesis for each experiment.  Was it right or wrong? Explain. 
       d.  List the rates of changes in temperature for each experiment. 
       e.   Discuss the strengths and weaknesses in your data.  
       f.  What does your data tell you about the Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases and the Earth's Albedo?  
Step 3: Notebook Check!  Use the board.  

Red Monday 9/8, White Tuesday 9/9

Learning Targets
1.  Describe the carbon cycle and demonstrate how carbon moves from one reservoir to the next. 
Agenda
Turn in Lab Reports
Carbon Cycle Reading & Game
Step 1:  Grab a Carbon Cycle - How It Works Worksheet, Write under Prior Knowledge, what you know about the Carbon Cycle.  
Step 2:  Watch Video on the Carbon cycle.
Step 3:  Read the background info about Carbon.  Paste onto page 11 in your notebooks and answer these questions:  
      a.  List 3 qualities about Carbon
      b.  What did we start using around the time of the Industrial Revolution?  What was released into the atmosphere as a result?
      c.  What are Fossil Fuels? What do they provide for us?
      d.  What is the carbon cycle?  
      e.  What have scientists determined is happening to CO2 concentrations for the past half century? How long is a century?
      f.  What is global warming?  
      g. List at least 4 effects of global warming.
Step 4:  Begin your Carbon Cycle game.  You must go through at least 10 reservoir stations before you are done.  
Step 5:  Carbon Cycle Comics.  grab a sheet of construction paper and follow the directions.

Monday 9/15, Tuesday 9/16, Wednesday 9/17

Learning Targets:
1.  Interpret the effects of burning fossil fuels on the Carbon Cycle and make connections to the Greenhouse Effect as we continue to add CO2 into the atmosphere. 
2.  Investigate causes of climate change and its effect on the earth.  
Agenda
Finish Carbon Cycle Comic
Recap
Global Warming 101 video
Climate Time Machine
Step 1: Watch the Global Warming 101 video.  
Step 2:  Using the link below for the Climate Time Machine, answer the following questions on page 16: 
  1. How much Arctic sea ice has melted just since satellites started observing around 30 years ago?
  2. What parts of the world will be under water as sea level rises, inch by inch, foot by foot?
  3. How much has the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide increased in the air just in the last few years
  4. How much has temperature risen around the world in just a little over 100 years?
Step 3:  Watch the video to the right.  On page 17 in your notebook answer these questions:  
       1.  What is an Ice Core? 
       2.  What are the three kinds of information scientists get from ice core samples?
       3.  What is the oldest Ice that they have on record?
       4.  How long did it take to drill that far?
       5.  What is the repeating pattern of ice ages in the past?
       6.  How many years in the past do they hope to get samples from?
Step 4:  Investigating Core Ice Data:  pick a partner to work with in groups of two.  You will also need a "Getting to the Core: Link Between Temperature and CO2" packet and a set of "table paper" instructions.  
  •  Read the background information for the table papers.       
  • Follow the "Vostok Data Instructions" for rounding the CO2 concentrations and the temperature anomaly
  • Follow the "Plotting the Graphs" instructions.  

Wednesday 9/ 24, Thursday 9/25

Learning Targets: 
1.  Analyze CO2 and temperature anomaly data to show correlations.
2.  Conduct an experiment that measures the effects of sea ice melt and land locked ice melt on rising sea levels due to climate change.  
Agenda
Finish Ice Core Data Graphs & Discussion
CO2 Movie
300 Years of Fossil Feuls
Sea Levels Rise Lab
Step 1:  Before  you turn in your graphs, add 2014 to your years at the bottom after 0.  The CO2 concentration in August 2014 is 397.01 ppm, the temperature anomaly for June 2014 is 0.73 degrees C.   
Step 2:  Write a reflection on your graphs that discusses the heavy, steady increase.  What is causing the rise in CO2?  
Picture
McCarty Glacier, Alaska. July 30, 1909 and August 11, 2004.
Step 4 :  Grab a Sea Level Rise table paper and also your student worksheet.  Working in Groups of 2, read and answer the questions about sea levels rising.  On the back of that paper, fill out the lab sheet, by designing your own lab that investigates the cause of rising sea levels, is it sea ice or land locked ice that causes the sea levels to rise when it melts?  Place on Page 18. 
Step 5:  Using the button below to Investigate the effects of climate change on Extreme Weather and Human Health.  Scroll through the pictures first and then answer the questions.