OVERHEAD PAGES

• Where does weather happen?

• Definitions of weather

• The basic ingredients of weather

• What is it?

• The layers of the atmosphere

• Air pressure & weather forecasting

• Precipitation: There's more than one kind

• The water cycle

• Making experimental observations

• How rain forms

• Meet the sun

• Land and sea breezes

• When air masses are on the move weather is changing

• Air masses and fronts

• Gallery of clouds

• Cloud classification chart

• International weather symbols

• Microclimates

• How & why weather is measured

HANDOUTS & WORKSHEETS

• My experimental observations

• Weather invention worksheet

• Six Weather instrument cards

• Weather instrument questionnaire

DEMONSTRATION EXPERIMENTS

• Air takes up space

• Air has weight

• Power cardboard or magic glass?

• Condensation

• Make it rain!

• When does rain fall?

• What creates wind?

Preview sample lessons from The Weather Zone!