On Cloud 9: Helping Students Relate the Concept of Differential Heating to Changes in Weather

Authors

Elizabeth White, Prairie High School
Morgan Pett

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Understanding the basic features that drive the weather is important for understanding weather forecasting. In this activity students investigate differential heating and then connect that understanding to weather. Students are required to design a procedure, collect data, and make sense of that data. These investigative skills require students to be mentally engaged, and better model what scientists do while highlighting the inquisitive nature of science. This activity promotes National Science Education Standards A, B, D, and G and Iowa Teaching Standards 1, 2, 3, and 6.

Publication Date

Fall 2007

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

34

Issue

3

First Page

14

Last Page

18

Copyright

© Copyright 2007 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

White, Elizabeth and Pett, Morgan (2007) "On Cloud 9: Helping Students Relate the Concept of Differential Heating to Changes in Weather," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 34: No. 3, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol34/iss3/5