Weather & Atmosphere PowerPoint & Guided Notes | Weather, Energy Transfer & Wind

Teach the foundations of weather with a ready-to-use instructional slideshow and perfectly aligned guided notes!

This middle school science resource introduces students to the basic elements of weather before exploring weather instruments, weather data, energy transfer, uneven heating of Earth, air density, convection currents, wind, and local wind patterns.

The included student guided notes follow the slideshow in order, allowing students to focus on the lesson while recording important vocabulary, relationships, and examples. A complete teacher answer key is also included.

What’s Included

• 38-slide Weather & Atmosphere instructional slideshow

• 8-page student guided notes

• 8-page teacher answer key

• Essential question and learning targets

• Think-Pair-Share and discussion opportunities

• Data-analysis practice

• Check-for-understanding questions

• Final essential-question response

Topics Covered

• Weather vs. climate

• Temperature

• Air pressure

• Humidity

• Wind

• Precipitation

• Weather instruments

• Collecting and graphing weather data

• Finding patterns in weather data

• The Sun as the energy source for weather

• Uneven heating of Earth

• Radiation, conduction, and convection

• Land vs. water heating

• Air density

• Convection currents

• Air pressure and wind

• Local winds

• Sea breezes and land breezes

The guided notes also include opportunities for students to analyze weather data and connect uneven heating → temperature differences → density differences → pressure differences → wind.