Precipitation Patterns

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

Objective: Students will demonstrate the relationship between precipitation types and surface temperatures.They will use forecast maps to predict where snow or rain will fall over the next several days.

National Science Education Standards – As a result of activities in grades 5-8, all students should develop an
understanding of structure of the earth system.

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, "Precipitation Patterns" (2007). Open Educational Resources. 39.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/oermaterials/39