Our students are learning about global winds and how wind travels from areas of high pressure to low pressure. The diagram below helps differentiate between high and low pressure systems.

This chart shows you the density of air when cool and warm.

What differences do you notice as air travels through the atmosphere?

global winds power point

This is the powerpoint for global winds. You may use this for notes

3-d project Layers of the Atmosphere

1: Construct  each layer and places objects found in each layer, for example clouds belong in the troposphere.

2: Use dots to represent the density of molecules in each layer as it decreases. 

3: On the side show the altitude of each layer and temperature

3-d project Layers of the Atmosphere

Here are some great examples of projects. Remember to be creative!!!

this project is worth 50 points ******

Students were able to analyze changes in density and temperature though a virtual lab. I have attached a link to the data chart and website.

VirtualAtmospherelab

https://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/ES14/ES14.html

We are learning about earths atmosphere. These are our learning targets!

I can describe the basis for dividing the atmosphere in layers.

I can identify the order of the layers and objects found in each layer of the atmosphere.

Here is the foldable we used in our notebook.

Sorry for not posting pictures since December !! We have been super busy between the science fair and studying cells. Here are pictures of all the great work students have been doing during science class

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Students worked on creating 3 dimensional atomic structures of elements they chose. Wonderful job!

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