Acid
Rain
Weather
Introduction | Invitation | Exploration | Explanation | Taking Action | Conclusion
Understanding weather patterns in your area is an important part of understanding acid rain. The weather affects where acid rain is formed and where it is deposited.
Objective:
You will discover how acid rains are connected with weather.
Materials:
- thermometer
- barometer
- anemometer
- psychrometer
- rain gauge
Answer the following questions with your classmates:
- 1. What does the word weather mean?
- 2. What is the atmosphere?
- 3. Is life without the atmosphere possible?
- 4. What do you know about the sun's influence on everything living on the earth?
- 5. Of what does air consist?
- 6. Have you ever seen weather maps?
- 7. Why does the weather change with the seasons?
Who knows today's weather forecast? What is the weather like now?
You will measure
certain weather parameters for one month to help understand
the weather patterns in your area. These parameters are
humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction, and type
and amount of precipitation. Record your data in a chart and
keep the data in your journal.
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Each day for the next 30 days, you will post the weather data your class has collected in a data table on the Internet. To access the data table you will have to link to the CLEO WEB SITE. When you get to CLEO select "participate," and then scroll down and find the Weather Patterns collaborative project. You will have to repeat this each time that you enter data in the data table, or when you return to look at and analyze the data.
When you get the CLEO site, you will have to click on the Weather Patterns project. Within the project, you will find a data table into which you can enter the daily weather data collected in either Walker County or St. Petersburg, Russia.
Use the data to make some general statements about the weather in North West Georgia compared to St. Petersburg, which is located in Northwest Russia.
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Taking
Action
How does weather affect your health?
Use the internet to research the type of health problems reported during your month of monitoring that could be attributed to acid rain.
Participate with other students by posting your answers to this question on the Acid Rain Bulletin Board, or by making arrangements with your teacher to have a real time chat with other students working on this project.
In this activity you
should have learned how to monitor the weather in your
region, and to compare your weather with another region of
the world.
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