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1. List your personal understanding, ideas or hunches.
Now that you are familiar with weathering and erosion you will write everything you know about weathering. Describe your thoughts or ideas about how to solve the problem. There are not incorrect answers in this step, just feel free to brainstorm your ideas.
2. List what is known.
With your team use all the information available in the scenario to list everything that you know about weather, warm fronts, cold fronts, air pressure, climate, and season.. You do not have to conduct any research yet. Just use the information given and write the facts that you already know about weather.
3. List what is unknown.
What is it that your team does not know about weather, climate, cold fronts, warm fronts, and air pressure.
What consequence can derive from each of these.
5. List what needs to be done.
a. Discuss as a team what you know about the weather, climate, cold fronts, warm fronts, and air pressure.
b. Assign each other one of the concepts to research on.
c. Provide illustrations to help viewers better understand each concept.
d. Attend mini-seminars on concepts.
e. Create a 10 minute video explianing your findings and a 30 second weather forecast at the end.
6. Develop a problem statement.
In groups of 5, your are responsible for obtaining information about weather, temperature, and climate to be able to produce an every-other-day weather forecast for the elementary student community in Harlingen and respond to any questions other students may have about weather, climate, and/or temperature.
7. Gather information
Use all the resources available (Internet, library, etc) to research about the problem/topic and find a solution.
8. Present Findings
The students will present their findings in a 10 minute documantary video that will launch their weather forecasting sessions.
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TEKS: 4.8B (Weather, warm front, cold front, temperature, air pressure, global warming, climate, season)
(4) In Grade 4, investigations are used to learn about the natural world. Students should understand that certain types of questions can be answered by investigations and that methods, models, and conclusions built from these investigations change as new observations are made. Models of objects and events are tools for understanding the natural world and can show how systems work. They have limitations and based on new discoveries are constantly being modified to more closely reflect the natural world.
(A) Within the natural environment, students know that earth materials have properties that are constantly changing due to Earth's forces. The students learn that the natural world consists of resources, including renewable and nonrenewable, and their responsibility to conserve our natural resources for future generations. They will also explore Sun, Earth, and Moon relationships. The students will recognize that our major source of energy is the Sun.
(B) Within the living environment, students know and understand that living organisms within an ecosystem interact with one another and with their environment. The students will recognize that plants and animals have basic needs, and they are met through a flow of energy known as food webs. Students will explore how all living organisms go through a life cycle and that adaptations enable organisms to survive in their ecosystem.
(2) Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student uses scientific inquiry methods during laboratory and outdoor investigations. The student is expected to:
(A) plan and implement descriptive investigations, including asking well-defined questions, making inferences, and selecting and using appropriate equipment or technology to answer his/her questions;
(B) collect and record data by observing and measuring, using the metric system, and using descriptive words and numerals such as labeled drawings, writing, and concept maps;
(C) construct simple tables, charts, bar graphs, and maps using tools and current technology to organize, examine, and evaluate data;
(D) analyze data and interpret patterns to construct reasonable explanations from data that can be observed and measured;
(E) perform repeated investigations to increase the reliability of results; and
(F) communicate valid, oral, and written results supported by data.
(8) Earth and space. The student knows that there are recognizable patterns in the natural world and among the Sun, Earth, and Moon system. The student is expected to:
(A) measure and record changes in weather and make predictions using weather maps, weather symbols, and a map key;
(B) describe and illustrate the continuous movement of water above and on the surface of Earth through the water cycle and explain the role of the Sun as a major source of energy in this process; and
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