This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 7th grade Science content.

 Students will plan a severe weather report using information learned about severe weather phenomena.  They will use the iPads and green screens to plan and create their severe weather report. Students will let the general public know how such phenomena occur, how they should proceed and cautions to adhere to while the event is occuring.  

This resource accompanies our Rethink 7th Grade Science course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Students complete a guided reading, define vocab, answer comprehension questions and create a graphic organizer.

Students learn about air masses and the role they play in weather and climate.

The purpose of this online tutorial activity is to introduce air masses that commonly influence the weather in the United States, characteristics of these air masses, and how to identify air masses on weather maps. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.

Students complete a guided reading, define vocab, answer comprehension questions and create a graphic organizer.

Students complete a guided reading, define vocab, answer comprehension questions and create a graphic organizer.

Students complete a guided reading, define vocab, answer comprehension questions and create a graphic organizer.

This animated module explains and illustrates the differences between high and low pressure systems.

Students will graph data to better understand the relationship of low pressure to storm severity.

 This is a hands-on project that uses George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, as the touchstone text. Students work in groups to construct a functioning windmill that can generate electricity. Each student has a role based on the characters in the book. There are also segments of the project that focus on extracting key information from the text.

This interactive resource uses a series of animated slides to guide students through the development of a hurricane.

This resource is an article that discusses the different things that cause the earth's weather.

Students practice the technique of drawing isobars, first by completing a sample and then by analyzing a full map.

Students assess their understanding of pressure systems and the associated weather conditions that may result.

The movement of Arctic air, known as the Arctic oscillation, can and will cause periodic extreme winter weather outside the Arctic region - the harsh winter experienced in many parts of the U.S. in 2010 is a recent example. This article explains the connection between the two events. This article is part of the Climate Kids website, a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.

In this lesson, students will explore convection using classroom experiments on Earth and then compare the results with the results of the same experiment in the microgravity environment onbaord the International Space Station.

Students manipulate virtual variables such as wind strength and direction, latitudinal location, atmospheric moisture, and sea temperature to create ideal conditions for hurricane formation in this interactive activity.

Students explore the difference between weather and climate by investigating extreme weather on Earth and its contributing factors. Students brainstorm a list of weather-related words and phrases. They will then gather information about weather by viewing images and videos and discussing with peers, and then record the information they have learned on a provided worksheet.

This is a webquest acitivty. Students are given links to different websites to find information about weather fronts. The websites contain information in text, pictures, and interactive forms.

This resource is an article that answers the question, "How Do Hurricanes Form?".

This brief video lesson discusses the weather conditions that foster tornado formation. Discussion/assessment questions and suggested supplemental resources are also included.

This brief video lesson discusses the weather conditions that foster tsunami formation. Discussion/assessment questions and suggested supplemental resources are also included.

In this lesson, students will explore the nature of hurricanes and lightning - two frequent and hazardous events in North Carolina.

Explore relationships between temperature, pressure, and humidity with daily weather forecasts.

GeoInquiries are designed to be fast and easy-to-use instructional resources that incorporate advanced web mapping technology. Each 15-minute activity in a collection is intended to be presented by the instructor from a single computer/projector classroom arrangement. No installation, fees, or logins are necessary to use these materials and software.

Students will use data to plot the path of a hurricane onto a map and then analyze the data and map to better understand hurricane formation.

This science update discusses the increase in hurricane activity in the mid 1990s and the proposed reasons for the increase.

This lesson is the first of a two-part series on the science of hurricanes and the kinds of technology being used to identify and track them. In this activity students examine different scientific aspects of hurricanes, all in an effort to begin to understand the nature of motion?particularly how changes in speed or direction of motion are caused by forces.

This lesson is the second in a two-part series on the science of hurricanes and the kinds of technology being used to identify and track them. In this activity students? study of hurricanes is broadened by exploring how technology and science are used today to identify, measure, and track powerful tropical storms to better warn and secure people from their often-devastating impact.

Students will be introduced to the Industrial Revolution's problem of child labor. Students will be able to describe advances in machinery during the Industrial Revolution. Students will identify reasons for the use of child laborers during the Industrial Revolution and describe how child laborers lived during the Industrial Revolution. Some of the YouTube links are dead, but the images are included in the pdf.

In this lesson, students graph the relationship between air pressure and wind speed in 2005's Hurricane Katrina and for the entire 2005 hurricane season. From their analyses, they come up with an estimate of the minimum air pressure that is likely to result in hurricane-force winds of 65 knots or higher.

Students will analyze a map that shows the surface weather conditions for Superstorm Sandy.

The purpose of this online tutorial activity is to introduce the characteristics of cyclones, the associated air masses and fronts, and finally how to locate the center of a cyclone from wind observations. Key words throughout this activity link directly to helper resources that provide useful information for answering the questions.

In this multimedia lesson, students learn about hurricane storms. Associated interactive activities include "Comparing Hurricane Categories," where students discover the strength of historic storms, "Hurricane Katrina - Recipe for Disaster," where students explore the natural and manmade ingredients for massive hurricanes, and "Hurricane Katrina - Environmental Consequences," where students investigate the environmental impact of a massive hurricane.