Weather and Climate PowerPoint and Notes Set

This PowerPoint and Notes Set includes everything you need to teach your students about weather and climate! Includes: weather, Earth's atmosphere, the water cycle, types of clouds, types of precipitation, what causes weather, weather instruments, air masses, patterns, fronts, cold front, warm front, meteorology, weather maps, severe weather, and climate! Scaffolded notes correspond to PowerPoint.

Includes:
- 23 slide PowerPoint
- 8 pages of scaffolded notes
- answer key

This PowerPoint and Notes Set covers Georgia Performance Standards:

S4E3. Students will differentiate between the states of water and how they relate to the water cycle and weather.
a. Demonstrate how water changes states from solid (ice) to liquid (water) to gas (water vapor/steam) and changes from gas to liquid to solid.
b. Identify the temperatures at which water becomes a solid and at which water becomes a gas.
c. Investigate how clouds are formed.
d. Explain the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, and precipitation).
e. Investigate different forms of precipitation and sky conditions. (rain, snow, sleet, hail, clouds, and fog).

S4E4. Students will analyze weather charts/maps and collect weather data to predict weather events and infer patterns and seasonal changes.
a. Identify weather instruments and explain how each is used in gathering weather data and making forecasts (thermometer, rain gauge, barometer, wind vane, anemometer).
b. Using a weather map, identify the fronts, temperature, and precipitation and use the information to interpret the weather conditions.
c. Use observations and records of weather conditions to predict weather patterns throughout the year.
d. Differentiate between weather and climate.

I hope you and your students enjoy this product!

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-Erin Kathryn