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Measuring Water Vapor: The Microwave Water Radiometer (MWR)
Pupils investigate water vapor. They view and analyze photos, conduct Internet research, and analyze the total water vapor/total liquid water data plot.
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Seasonal Cloud Cover Variations
Learners recognize different cloud types. They determine the seaonality of various types of clouds. They graph the data and determine if a correlation exists between season, cloud cover and type of clouds most prevalent during each season.
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Alternative Snowflakes
Students discover how snowflakes in nature are really formed, and recreate this process with paper and glue. This art lesson plan gets some scientific learning in as well.
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Rain Making - Understanding the Formation of Rain
Pupils read and conduct and experiment to learn about rain formation. In this water forms lesson, students read about the formation of rain and its purposes. Pupils then complete a rain experiment activity.
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Chemistry: The Collapsing Can
Pupils observe methods by which air can crush aluminum cans. As water in the can boils and is sealed, the can collapses as it cools. When the procedure is reversed, the can expands to its original shape. After the alternate experiment,...
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Observing, Describing, And Identifying Contrails
Students compare the three types of contrails that are produced by aircraft exhaust. They examine pictures of contrails on the internet to classify each as short lived, persistent or persistent spreading. They then sketch examples in...
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Learning Lesson: Sweatin' to the Coldies
Young scholars participate in a demonstration to show the change of water vapor to a liquid. They discuss the three states of matter. They examine flash flood safety to end the instructional activity.