6th climate change

Sixth Grade Integrated NGSS
Weather, Climate and Change

Understanding the difference amongst weather, climate, and climate change can be confusing. These units helps the student compare current weather over 7 months and see how it fits a climate change model. This will include creating data charts of information of a weather station, other internet sources and challenge the students to develop their own conclusions. The long term projects alows students to collect data over 6 months and compare it with the past 10 years

Long term project: How has weather changed over time in Fremont?
	Pre	Lab	Post	NGSS correlation
Weather (long term project)	Teacher Resources	World Wide Weather Monitoring		MS-ESS2 Water Cycle, Weather, Climate
Water Cycle	Water Cycle Details	Detailed Components of water cycle		MS-ESS2 Water Cycle, Weather, Climate
Corolis Effect		Showing effects of Coriolis Motion with water and power of wind	Jet Stream	MS-ESS2 Water Cycle, Weather, Climate
Air Pressure	Types of Clouds	Air Pressure	Climatic Zones	MS-ESS2 Water Cycle, Weather, Climate
Weather Fronts	What is a front?	Identifying Air Masses	Severe Weather	MS-ESS2 Water Cycle, Weather, Climate
Oceans in Motion	Oceanic features	Density of different layers in the ocean causes movement	Surface motion of oceans	MS-ESS2 Global climate change causes
Human Impact on Climate		Designing a watershed that collects and saves water		MS-Engineering Design ESS3 MS-Human Impacts

Key Concepts

The Water Cycle explains interactions between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. Evaporation of water from the oceans, seas, rivers, and streams into the atmosphere produce precipitation. Water can take the form of ice at the polar caps and alpine glaciers. Ice melts, creating water runoff, that either percolates through the Earth to become part of the water table or makes its way back to the sea. Water Cycle looks at the elements of hydrogen and oxygen and how it creates a compound that is unique. The oceans are where most of the water is found, but it is salt water. The movement of the oceans also has a direct effect on the atmosphere. The atmosphere is that envelope of gas that keeps organisms living on this planet. Oceans and atmosphere interact to give us weather.