The Japanese Weather Patterns unit provides students opportunities to interpret and analyze trends in weather patterns over many years in both Japan and the United States. Students will compare the annual rainfall and average temperatures at different times of the year in both places. Students will also identify ways the Japanese culture and weather patterns are reflected in the artwork of Mount Fuji and will construct haikus reflective of Japanese culture and weather patterns as depicted in art.

In this lesson, students will construct and use an anemometer to investigate wind speed.

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

Students use prior knowledge to brainstorm instruments scientists use to measure weather. They play a game to match illustrations of instruments that measure weather with descriptions of each instrument, and then use a photo gallery to check their answers. Students analyze the instruments based on how valuable they would be for measuring weather on other planets, or what modifications they may need to handle extreme weather.

In this activity, students will explore their location's climate in order to inform a pen pal of the type of weather he or she can expect to experience during an upcoming visit. Students will generate and explore a variety of graphs, charts, and map images and interpret them to develop your understanding of normal climate.

In this activity students will explore the weather in their area. Students will generate graphs, maps, and charts to develop an understanding of climate.

In this activity students will learn to analyze climographs to learn about the climate of an area.

This resource is an article with examples of how technological advances have increased human knowledge and improved our ability to predict how changes will affect Earth’s systems.

In this activity, students will understand the persistence method of forecasting and make a weather prediction using the persistence method.

This poster illustrates and describes types of high-, low-, and mid-altitude clouds. Poster back has article and activity related to Earth's water cycle, as well as a cloud identification quiz and a water cycle crossword puzzle.

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.  

This curricular unit is meant to engage students in scientific inquiry and hands-on measurement of the atmosphere. The lessons enable students to apply math and science to explore the challenge of air pollution in their own community.

Students explore satellites - what they are, how they work, how they are used, and how to interpret satellite images of sea ice using Google Earth.

In this activity, students use various methods to estimate the "precipitation" contents of three simulated "clouds" representing three different cloud types. Once the precipitation is released, students will compare their estimates to what is actually experienced on the ground. In addition to gaining an appreciation of weather forecasting issues and technologies, students will practice math skilld, including estimating, percentages, ratios, and averages.

Students examine images from weather satellites to better understand how satellites provide important observations for meteorologists calculating weather forecasts.