Engage

Students learn that energy transfers within the atmosphere, oceans, and continents influence weather patterns.

• Students read about the May 28, 2001 Ellicott tornado
• Cyberhunt - interesting weather trivia

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Energy stored in the atmosphere sometimes builds up to form storms (thunderstorms, tornadoes & hurricanes) This energy is evetually released

• Get-It Where Do Hurricanes Get Their Energy?
• Get-It What Affects Hurricane Wind Speed
• Get-It Tropical Storm Trends in the North Atlantic
• PowerPoint Shows - Tornado Damage/Fugita Scale/Ellicott, CO Tornado/Trinidad Tornado Animation

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Solar Energy reaches the Earth's atmosphere where it is transferred between water, rock and air

• Investigating Soil and Water Temperatures
• Get-It Temperature and Heat

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Interpretation of weather maps can be useful in predicting future weather patterns

• Interpreting Surface Weather Maps
• Predicting the Weather -DataStreme
• Jet Stream