Students will probably conclude that the air is warmer or colder, etc. Tell students that during the following few weeks we will be studying elements of weather and how it is forecasted. Each lesson will have a different focus. Students will conduct investigations by gathering information from many sources such as class experiments, Internet sites and others. They should record results in a data chart and then draw conclusions from their findings.
Students are to keep a report of all investigations in a journal.
Have students begin by stating a hypothesis on the focus. Tell them as they discover new information, they will put it in a data chart. Later they will draw conclusions on all findings. Sample data chart. Describing and comparing the layers of the atmosphere.