Mid-Latitude Cyclones

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

National Science Education Standards: As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop an understanding about scientific inquiry, structure of the earth system, and understandings about science and technology.

Department

Department of Earth Science

Department

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

Comments

Level 2 Weather Activities:

• Activity 1: Reading Universal Time
• Activity 2: Drawing Isotherms
• Activity 3: Structure of the Atmosphere
• Activity 4: Winds Around Highs and Lows
• Activity 5: Fronts
• Activity 6: Mid-Latitude Cyclones
• Activity 7: Precipitation Patterns
• Activity 8: Drawing Isobars
• Activity 9: Air Pressure and Weather
• Activity 10: Decoding METAR Data
• Activity 11: Reading and Using Meteograms
• Activity 12: Upper Air Plots

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, "Mid-Latitude Cyclones" (2007). Open Educational Resources. 38.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/oermaterials/38