Learning Sequence 2

A Front Headed Your Way

What other types of storms cause precipitation?

Students progress to investigations of how air masses collide at fronts, which can cause stormy weather over a larger region and over many days, especially at cold fronts where a cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass.

Resources

Teacher Guide
- Designed to guide you through each section of the curriculum by providing step-by-step instructions for lessons, sample videos of activities, background science content, and NGSS connections.
All Student Activity Sheets for Lessons 7-11
- Each lesson has activity sheets that you can download separately (see below), or you can download all of the activity sheets used in a learning sequence using the link above.
Digital Student Activity Sheets for Lessons 7-11
- Designed to be used with online learning management systems, like Google Classroom. Check out the Digital Worksheet Guide for more instructions on how to use these worksheets. Make sure to log into your Google account before copying any of the sheets to your drive.
Powerpoints
- Powerpoint slides have been developed for each section of the curriculum to help organize and guide your students through lessons and activities.
Summative Assessments
- Each learning sequence includes a corresponding summative assessment with answer keys; these assessments allow you to make sense of student learning, identify productive thinking, and identify incomplete or inaccurate ideas.
Digital Summative Assessments
- As with the Digital Student Activity Sheets, these assessments are designed to be used with online learning management systems, like Google Classroom. Check out the Digital Worksheet Guide for more instructions on how to use these tools. Make sure to log into your Google account before copying any of the sheets to your drive. Make a direct copy here: Learning Sequence 2 Worksheet; Drawing.
GLOBE Connections
- For each learning sequence, we have developed GLOBE Connections that include ideas for student research and environmental explorations that utilize GLOBE protocols, the GLOBE Visualization Tool, and connect with GLOBE schools from around the world.

Additional background information

Norwegian Cyclone Model
Weather Fronts
Smithsonian Weather Lab (interactive models for students)
Science Talk Video: Fronts
- This video was created for teacher background information and workshop purposes (not as a visual tool for your students).

Lesson Resources