Air Masses

Author

STORM Project

Grade Level

Gr. 9; Gr. 10; Gr. 11; Gr. 12; Gr. Secondary

Document Type

Activities and Labs

Keywords

Environmental science--Experiments; Ecology--Experiments; Atmospheric physics--Experiments;

Abstract

Objectives:
• Students will learn and become familiar with the four air masses: cold and dry; cold and humid; hot and dry; and hot and humid.
• Students will learn that air masses have specific characteristics: temperature and humidity, the leading edge of the air mass is called the front, a front is the boundary between two air masses, and movement of air masses brings certain weather conditions with it.

National Science Education Standards: All students should develop: abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, properties of earth materials, and changes in earth and sky.

Department

Department of Earth Science

Department

STORM Project - Science Center for Teaching, Outreach, and Research on Meteorology

Comments

Note to the teachers: The following level 1 weather activities need to be done sequentially as each lesson builds on concepts learned in previous lessons. If your students have a good understanding of Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures, you might consider bypassing the first two activities and begin with Activity 3-Patterns of Temperature.

Level 1 Weather Activities:

• Activity 1: What's the Temperature?
• Activity 2: Where Is it Hot or Cold?
• Activity 3: Patterns of Temperature
• Activity 4: Clouds Over Your Head
• Activity 5: Weather Station Plots
• Activity 6: Where Did the Water Go?
• Activity 7: Weather Maps and Fronts
• Activity 8: Which Way Does the Wind Blow?
• Activity 9: How Fast Does the Wind Blow?
• Activity 10: Highs, Lows and Patterns in the Wind
• Activity 11: Do the Dewpoint!
• Activity 12: Air Masses
• Activity 13: Weather Around Highs and Lows

Original Date

2007

Copyright

©2007 The STORM Project, University of Northern Iowa

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

STORM Project, "Air Masses" (2007). Open Educational Resources. 31.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/oermaterials/31