Students will write a variety of documents. Students will understand quantitative problems. They perform a variety of learning activities that require quantitative thinking they develop their ability to observe local weather elements and express them quantitatively, such as in station models learn to quantify and express all observations into units, such as F, millibars of pressure, etc. learn to use observations to analyze how weather systems are changing by making weather maps and charts apply basic algebra and statistics to understand what observed data mean 6. Students will be able to use a computer. This often includes major current issues, such as El Nino, La Nina, devastating storms, droughts, drift of toxic airborne chemicals 7.
Students are willing to receive information and respond to it.
They respond to a variety of information they are positive about their new-found skills in observing local weather identifying clouds, understanding what clouds tell them, forecasting local weather accurately, understanding the physics of some observable atmospheric phenomena, such as thunderstorms, rainbows, snowflake patterns. Students develop values, organize them into systems, and apply those systems to their private and public lives. They develop an understanding and appreciation of how the atmosphere works and produces the weather and climate we have. They learn how to make sense of the weather and learn how to think about the weather to the point where they understand what the weather will be in the near future. B. Build and use a foundation of general knowledge in the discipline Curricular Goals Course Goals Learning Activities 10.