Weather+and+Water


 * 4th Grade Science - Weather and Water**

PowerPoint Project 2010

Earlier in the semester you each selected a topic and conducted an experiment at home. Now you will have a chance to present additional information about your topics and share what you have learned from your experiment.

You are asked to create a PowerPoint presentation to tell others about your topic and experiment. These are the expectations:
 * Slide 1: Create a title telling your topic. Identify who did the experiment and this presentation. Add in pictures related to your topic to catch the attention of the people looking at your presentation.
 * Slide 2: What were the "Steps of Investigation". List them with bullet points. Include pictures to enhance your list.
 * Slide 3: What were the "Results and Conclusions". Once again list them with bullet points and include pictures to illustrate your investigation.
 * Slides 4 - ?: Give some details and show pictures to tell about the steps in your investigation.
 * Final Slide: Summarize "What we have learned about God in our study of His world". Use a couple sentences (bullet list?) to tell what you learned about God by doing your investigation.

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Weather and Water Questions and Resources:

**1. More Water into the Air:** Does water evaporate from plants and soil? How does water move up a plant stem? What is transpiration?
 * The Water Cycle: []
 * The Water Cycle: Transpiration: []

**2. Water in Plants:** Do fruits and vegetables store water? Sun dry fruits to find out how much of each fruit is actually water. Plants contain more water than any other substance. How much of the human body is water? What happens to the body without an adequate intake of water?
 * The water content of many foods: []

**3. Cloud Maker:** How are clouds formed? What is a cloud? Can you describe different types of clouds (cumulus, cirrus, and status)? Clouds indicate what types of weather?
 * Clouds: []
 * Web Weather for Kids - Clouds: []
 * Types of Clouds: []
 * The Cloud Classification System: @http://australiasevereweather.com/techniques/moreadv/class.htm

**4. Making a Rainbow:** How can water break up light into separate colors and create a rainbow? Demonstrate a prism. What are the weather conditions for a rainbow? Read about Sir Isaac Newton and his investigations into light. What can you find out about the invisible spectrum?
 * Rainbow information : []
 * How are rainbows made: [|http://] [|www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/**science****kids**/**rainbow**.html]
 * More rainbow information: []

** 5. More Heat: ** Which warms faster, water or soil? What are the effects of uneven heating and cooling of land and water on weather? How does this cause land and sea breezes?
 * Land and Sea breezes: []
 * Sea breezes: []

** 6. Windy: ** How can the speed of wind be measured? What is an anemometer. Use a weather vane to show wind direction. What is the jet stream and the trade winds?
 * Wind: []
 * A Sea of Air: []
 * Let the winds blow: []

**7. Boom:** What causes thunder? What causes lightning? Lightning is seen and thunder is heard---does air temperature affect either one? Can you tell the distance a lightning stroke is from you?
 * Rock and Roll Weather: []
 * Web Weather for Kids - Thunderstorms, Lightning, Tornadoes: []
 * Thunderstorms: [|http://www.weatherwizkids.com/thunderstorm.html]
 * Lightning: []

**8. Hot Box:** What is the greenhouse effect? Could changes in the ozone layer cause climate changes? What is some of the evidence presented to support the global warming theory?


 * Global Warming and the Greenhouse effect: []
 * More about the green house effect: []
 * Climate: []
 * Global warming: []

** 9. Stormy: ** What is the eye of a hurricane? What are causes and effects of hurricanes? What safety precautions one should take during a hurricane. How can wetlands affect the strength of a hurricane?
 * Hurricanes []
 * Rock and Roll Weather: []
 * Web Weather for Kids - Hurricanes: []
 * Hurricanes: []

** 10. Twister: ** What is the shape of a tornado? What are causes and effects of tornadoes? What safety precautions one should take during a tornado.
 * Rock and Roll Weather: []
 * Web Weather for Kids - Thunderstorms, Lightning, Tornadoes: []
 * Tornadoes: []

** 11. Straight On ! Climate Regions: ** How does the curved shape of the earth affect the climate throughout the world? What are the distinct climate regions of the world and what type of weather occurs in each region? ** 12. Fronts: ** What are fronts? Compare the movement of air masses in the four types of fronts. When warm and cold air masses collide participation occurs.
 * There is a season: []
 * Climate: []
 * What is climate?:[]
 * Fronts: [|http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/af/frnts/home.rxml]
 * Weather Fronts: @http://okfirst.mesonet.org/train/meteorology/Fronts.html
 * Weather Fronts (2): @http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/aboutweather/fronts.html

** 13. Waterwheels: ** How does a waterwheel use water to do work? Explore how people use flowing water to do work (generators, hydroelectricity, irrigation, etc.)
 * History of Water Machines: []
 * Water Wheel: @http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blwaterwheel.htm


 * 14. Water in Earth Materials: ** How does water filter through different earth materials (gravel and soil)? Think other earth materials - sand, clay etc. through which water could also be filtered. Notice the absorption of some materials and the flow of water through other materials. Create a water filter to clean water using a variety of materials and observing the results.
 * Water filters through earth materials: http://www.ec.gc.ca/Water/en/info/pubs/NSKit/e_chap3.htm
 * Earth Water Filter: @http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.waterfilter/