FCPS Weather Unit and AWS Online Lesson Correlations

FCPS Weather Activity #

Classroom Activity

AWS Software Application

1

What is a weather forecast?

View AWS screens of weather instruments.

2

How do clouds help you forecast the weather?

Use AWS graph of light intensity of group.

3

What is the temperature?

Use AWS graph of temperature of group.

4

Which way does the wind blow?

Use AWS wind direction displays and lesson.

5

What is the wind speed?

Use AWS wind speed displays and lesson.

6

How cold is it?

Use AWS wind chill and heat index lessons, and chart.

7

What is the water cycle?

Use AWS precipitation lesson.

8

What is the acidity of the rain?

-No AWS lesson

9

What is humidity?

Use AWS relative humidity lesson.

10

Does air have weight?

Use AWS barometric pressure lesson.

11

What is a weather front?

-No AWS lesson

12

How do you forecast the weather?

Use Discovering Interrelationships Between Weather Variables lesson.


Prepared by Joanne Goodwin and Paula Messer
November 1997