Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts
Patterns
Knowledge
Students know:
- Weather conditions, like average temperature, precipitation, wind direction, from a given area across multiple seasons.
- Patterns of weather conditions across different seasons and in different areas.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify typical weather conditions for a season.
- Represent data in tables and various graphical formats.
- Describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Scientists record patterns of the weather across different times and areas so that they can make predictions about what kind of weather might happen next.
Vocabulary
- Data
- Types of graphs
- Table
- Seasons
- Typical weather conditions for a season
- Temperature
- Precipitation
- Wind direction
