CSTA 2012 Reasoning About Weather

Here are links to download both the activities from the workshop, and the rest of the thermal energy unit.

Weather Models:

• Air pressure
• Thermal energy
• Water Cycle
• Keeping Track of Our Ideas chart

Air pressure

• Squeezing Air
• Wind Speed map
• Reviewing Air Pressure

Water Cycle:

• Water Cycle Chart
• Water Cycle & Energy
• Reviewing Water Cycle with Doogie and Kyle

Thermal Energy:

• Thinking About Energy (introduction to energy conservation)
• Energy Cards (sorting categories of energy into energy of motion and energy of position)
• Hot or Cold (thermal equilibrium)
• Energy Transfers (thermal equilibrium)
• Hot Rocks (temperature v. thermal energy)
• Temperature and Thermal Energy
• Hot Rod (conduction)
• Moving Colors (convection)
• Convection - with teacher's guide
• Solar Heating (investigates differential heating of different materials, and angle of sunlight)
• Thermal Energy puzzle (the naked guy problem)
• Thermal Energy Revisited (review of heat transfer using our favorite idiots, Doogie and Kyle)
• Heat Transfer problems (applying conduction, convection and radiation in various situations)