Within the earth science strand of 7th grade science, students focus on understanding the cycling of matter in and out of Earth’s atmosphere. In this task, students will research five weather phenomena and use this information to create five “recipes for disaster” to be compiled for a class analysis for similarities and differences and a general understanding of the importance of temperature, pressure, and humidity in weather. The web/text research and result analysis, as well as the creative writing nature of this lesson, allow students to build content understanding while promoting 21st Century Skills. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use a combination of technological skills to understand and explain the formation, power, and history of hurricanes.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade Science. 

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 7th Grade Science.  

In this video, students learn that weather conditions are influenced by global weather patterns. When the Earth's air masses run into each other, the place where they meet is called a front. Fronts are responsible for all kinds of weather like snow.

With this interactive, students explore the relationship between sea surface temperatures (SST) and hurricane strength.

Students transcribe local weather data, including cold and warm fronts, onto the Sky Watchers Weather map and identify three areas of changing weather conditions.

These are the student instructions for the activity "Lights, Camera, Weather, Action!" In this activity students transcribe local weather data, including cold and warm fronts, onto the Sky Watchers Weather map and identify three areas of changing weather conditions.

Students use storytelling and exploration with suction cups to learn about relative air pressure.

Students will make predictions about how the frequency and impact of natural disasters will change in the future due to the effects of human activity on the climate.

Use hurricane track information to understand factors that encourage the formation of hurricanes.

In this lesson, students explore the First Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth-century America. Through simulation activities and the examination of primary historical materials, students learn how changes in the workplace and less expensive goods led to the transformation of American life.

Students learn about the forces that cause wind and how to measure these changes in the atmosphere.

In this lesson, students will create convection currents in a plastic container that illustrates how the movement of warm and cold air in the atmosphere creates thunderstorms.

This resource includes a video and a text article about tornadoes and scientists who attempt to study the storms by chasing them.