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**3.02:** Discuss and determine how the following are affected by predictable patterns of weather: • Temperature • Wind direction and speed • Precipitation
 * **Lesson 10:** || Let's get introduced to weather! [[image:http://mainstreetbarandgrillnj.com/weather%20button.gif width="177" height="107" align="right"]][[image:http://jorgemarroquin.com/images/weather.jpg width="175" height="105" align="right"]] ||
 * **Standards Addressed:** || **Science**

**__ELA Common Core Standards__**  **SL.5.1.:** Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. - Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions. ||
 * **Lesson Objective:** || Students will understand the predictable patterns of weather related to the tropical regions of the Earth. They will learn to understand that these patterns are abiotic factors. ||
 * **Assessment:** || Quick Write: What are the changes in weather in North Carolina because of elevation changes in the mountain, piedmont and coastal regions? ||
 * **Tools:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">SMART board/projector ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Introduction:** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">What do you know about tropical climate? How is it different than the climate here in North Carolina? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Procedures** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. Demonstration of globe and light bulb. Teachers are simulating the tilt of the Earth and the rotation of the Earth around the sun.* What does the light bulb represent?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why is the demonstration set up this way?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">What latitudes are experiencing the most sunlight? Why?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Why is your teacher moving around the globe ¼ of a rotation at a time, why is he/she doing that?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">What is the connection between temperature, sunlight and latitude?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Use Hawaii Climate Summaries site to compare and contrast two different island locations based on average temperature and rainfall.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ookala (#20 on map) Elevation about 400 feet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mauna Loa Slope Observatory (#23) Elevation about 10,000 feet (Using these to highlight the importance of elevation and the change of temperature and precipitation)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Quick Write: What are the changes in weather in North Carolina because of elevation changes in the mountain, piedmont and coastal regions? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">**Materials/ Resources:** || # <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">[]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">SMART File
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hawaii Climate Summaries http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/climsmhi.html ||