WEATHER INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Weather bingo cards
HOW TO PLAY
SAMPLE CARDS ARE BELOW
PREPARE - Print out different bingo card for each student.
DISTRIBUTE - Hand out one bingo card to each student ( each card should be different)
CALL - The caller should pull out one image describe it and show it to other students
MARK IMAGE - The children will then place pennies, rocks or something similar on the called image if it is on their card
WINNING - Once a predetermined pattern is made on a card, the child with that card calls out bingo.
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HOW TO PLAY
PREPARE - Print out different bingo card mat for each student. Choose 9 picture and paste them on each box provided on the bingo mat.
DISTRIBUTE - Hand out one copy to each student.
CALL - The caller should pull out one image describe it and show it to other students
MARK IMAGE - The children will then place pennies, rocks or something similar on the called image if it is on their card
WINNING - Once a predetermined pattern is made on a card, the child with that card calls out bingo.
HOW TO USE
During discussion, you can show these cards to your students to help them visualize the weather. You might want them to attach on your wall as a classroom decor.
OVERVIEW
Difference between WEATHER and CLIMATE
WEATHER is the day to day condition of the atmosphere. This includes temperature, rainfall and wind.
CLIMATE is the average weather conditions of a place, usually measured over one year. This includes temperature and rainfall.
RAIN is able to form when air that is full of water vapor becomes so saturated that the water droplets within clouds careen together to form larger and heavier droplets that eventually cannot defy gravity any longer and fall to the ground. Warm air tends to hold more water vapor than cold air and rain can happen when warm air rises and the water vapor within it becomes cooled and forms droplets. Rain can fall as rapidly as 18 miles an hour and the drops may be as large as a quarter inch in diameter. Heavy rains are capable of causing floods and flash-flood, overflowing river banks and narrow canyons.
SNOW may form as water vapor changes to ice high up within the clouds in the atmosphere. This occurs when the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Snow falls at 6-sided snowflakes compose of ice crystals that develop around minute particles of dust and dirt carried into the air by the wind; once they grow large enough, gravity brings them down to the ground. A storm in which there is high wind, heavy snow and below-freezing temperature is called a blizzard.
CLOUDS
There are four basic types of clouds. High clouds, middle clouds, low clouds and vertical development. There are also clouds that don't fall into any of these groups. Low clouds are from the surface to about 6,500 feet and are usually composed of water droplets unless temperatures are several degrees below freezing. Clouds on the ground are called fog. Middle clouds range from about 6,500 to 20,000 feet. They are mostly composted of droplets unless temperatures are cold. High clouds are above 20,000 feet and are composed of ice crystals
FOG is a stratus cloud on the ground. There are several types of cloud. Advection fog is produced by a horizontal motion of warm moist air over colder ground. An example of this would be a warm front moving across land with a recent snow or cold weather. Radiation fog is produced as heat from the earth surface is radiated back to space at night. A moist layer and nearly clam winds need to be present. Wind can mix in dry air aloft, keeping the air below the saturation point. Steam fog forms when cold air moves over relatively warm water. This can be observed as wisps of "steam" rising from lakes, rivers or oceans when a cold air mass move in. Upslope fog occurs as air is pushed up a mountain side and becomes saturated so that condensation occurs.
SUNNY weather or clear skies is defined as less than 1/8 sky cloud cover. Mostly sunny skies is characterized by 1/8 - 2/18 sky cloud cover. Sunny skies many times are observed when a high pressure area is dominating the weather pattern. High pressure signifies a region of sinking air which tends to dry out the atmosphere resulting in less moisture to form clouds. Deserts are locations with sunny or mostly sunny skies due to high pressure systems influencing the weather pattern much of the year.
WIND is air in motion in the atmosphere. Windy weather is caused by an imbalance of heating in the atmosphere. It can be caused from an imbalance from solar heating or a difference over a boundary such as a front. The uneven heating generates an unbalanced pressure field. Air from a high pressure area flows toward a region of low pressure to balance the pressure field. A wind vane points to the direction from where the wind is blowing from and anemometer measures how fast the wind is blowing. The strongest surface wind gust was 253 mph set on top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire on April 12, 1934.
https://www.tropicalweather.net/weather.html
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