Lesson 3 : Predicting weather

Lesson 3 : Predicting weather

Hook video

Poll

Have you read over the pages required for lesson 2?

• Yes

• No

• a few pages

Poll

Have you read over the pages required for lesson 3?

• Yes

• No

• a few pages

Video experiment on air

Multiple Choice

what was inside the bottle ?

• air

• nothing

Open Ended

what happens to the balloon when it is placed inside the hot water ? and why?

Open Ended

why did the the balloon stop expanding/inflating when it went into cold water ?

Multiple Choice

Hot air sinks and cold air rises

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

what causes the air to move in different directions ?

• Corolius effect

• heat rising effect

• cold air sinking effect

Multiple Choice

air in high pressure areas move

• clockwise

• anti-clockwise

Multiple Choice

isobars gives scientists ideas of ?

• wind speeds

• air pressure

Multiple Choice

the H stands for

• low pressure

• high pressure

weather front video

Multiple Choice

cold fronts move faster than warm fronts

• true

• false

Multiple Select

Select 2 fronts

• warm front

• cold front

• snow front

• hail front

Multiple Choice

cold fronts bring storms and rain and then clear skies

• true

• false

occluded front

When a cold front catches up with

a warm front, an occluded front

(uh•KLEW•did) forms. Cool air moves

underneath the warm front. This

produces a wedge of warm air between

two masses of cold air. The formation

of an occluded front often indicates

that a storm will not last a long time

Multiple Choice

a cold front meeting a warm front is called

• friends

• occluded front

• warm front

• cold front

weather forecasting video

Multiple Choice

high air pressure would mean

• rainy weather

• fair weather

Multiple Choice

weather balloons are expensive to replace

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

the white outlines on the map are

• isobars

• lines

Open Ended

what do the letters H and L stand for on the map ?

Students to read pages 404-405 and answer in their workbooks and complete the Lesson review on pages 403

Open Ended

what have you learnt from the lesson?