Observing Weather Patterns

  • LEARNING GOAL 
    Students who demonstrate understanding can represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.

    PROFICIENCY SCALE

    Innovating Student demonstrates advanced application and understanding of weather and climate.
    Meeting Student demonstrates mastery with the learning goal as evidenced by:
    • organizing and representing given data by season using tables, pictographs, and/or bar graphs including weather condition data from the same area across multiple seasons and weather conditions data from different areas.
    • using patterns of weather conditions in different seasons and different areas to predict the typical weather condition expected during a particular season in different areas.
    Approaching Student demonstrates he/she is nearing proficiency by:
    • organizing and representing given data with guidance and support by season using tables, pictographs, and/or bar graphs.
    • identifying and describing weather conditions across different seasons and in different areas.
    Beginning Student demonstrates limited understanding of weather and climate.

    LEARNING GOAL 
    Students who demonstrate understanding can obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

    PROFICIENCY SCALE

    Innovating Student demonstrates advanced application and understanding of weather and climate.
    Meeting Student demonstrates mastery with the learning goal as evidenced by:
    • combining obtained information to provide evidence about the climate patterns in a region that can be used to make predictions about typical weather conditions in that region.
    Approaching Student demonstrates he/she is nearing proficiency by:
    • describing the difference between weather and climate.
    • collecting information about the climate of a region of the world.
    Beginning Student demonstrates limited understanding of weather and climate.

    LEARNING GOAL 
    Students who demonstrate understanding can make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a weather-related hazard.

    PROFICIENCY SCALE

    Innovating Student demonstrates advanced application and understanding of weather and climate.
    Meeting Student demonstrates mastery with the learning goal as evidenced by:
    • evaluating the evidence to determine how the proposed solution addresses the problem, including the impact of the weather-related hazard after the design solution have been implemented.
    • evaluating the merits of a given solution in reducing the impact of a weather-related hazard.
    • evaluating the benefits and risks a given solution poses when responding to the societal demand to reduce the impact of the hazard.
    Approaching Student demonstrates he/she is nearing proficiency by:
    • identifying weather related hazards.
    • identifying problems caused by weather related hazards.
    • describing with guidance and support how a proposed solution addresses the problem.
    Beginning Student demonstrates limited understanding of weather and climate.

    LEARNING GOAL 
    Students who demonstrate understanding can identify patterns indicating relationships between observed weather data and weather phenomena (e.g., temperature and types of precipitation, clouds and amounts of precipitation)

    PROFICIENCY SCALE

    Innovating Student demonstrates advanced application and understanding of weather and climate.
    Meeting Student demonstrates mastery with the learning goal as evidenced by:
    • identifying patterns showing the relationship between observed weather data and weather phenomena.
    Approaching Student demonstrates he/she is nearing proficiency by:
    • identifying the signs that different weather is going to happen.
    • describing typical attributes of weather.
    Beginning Student demonstrates limited understanding of weather and climate.