TITLE

THE ATMOSPHERE

GROUP

1º ESO

-Students Activity Book (ten pages).

-Schemes on the blackboard.

-Presentations with the computer.

-Internet (pictures, interactive exercises...).

-Lab experiment about salty water melting point.

-Weather station.

-Balloon.

-Interpretation of weather maps and other graphics.

-Educational films.

TEACHERS

Content teacher

Pablo Acosta Robles

English teacher

Josefina Herrera Cides, Mª Carmen Chilla.

Language assistant

Lorna Geddie, Eleonora Scheltus.

AIMS

English

-Describe what the weather is like looking at different pictures and talking about temperature(freezing, cold, cool, mild, temperate, warm, hot), precipitation (rain, heavy rain, showers, hail, snow), wind (calm, breeze, moderate wind, strong wind, hurricane, tornado) and state of the sky (sunny, sunshine, cloudy, clear sky, overcast).

-Looking at a weather map explain the weather forecast for different parts of the map (North, South, West, East, Nothern, Southern, Western, Eastern...).

-Learning specific terminology: atmosphere, air, oxygen, breathe, layer, warming, greenhouse, fog, lightning, thunder, rainbow, atmospheric pressure, humidity, precipitations, forecast, pollution, climate change, hole in the ozone layer.

Content

-Enumerate the main components in the atmosphere and explain the origin of oxygen.

-Point the changes of density, atmospheric pressure and temperature from the bottom of the atmosphere to the top.

-Give reasons why the atmosphere is so important for living beings.

-List elements used to describe weather.

-Relate pressure changes to state of the sky and precipitations.

-Handle properly the instruments inside our weather station.

-Get data from the weather tables and draw the corresponding graphics.

-Intrepret a simple weather map.

-Explain negative consequences from atmospheric pollution.

-Propose solutions for atmospheric pollution.

ACTIVITIES/

TEACHING TECHNIQUES

-Making graphics.

-Interpreting graphics and answering quesitonaires.

-Describing different kinds of weather watched on photographs.

-Handling weather instruments.

-Interpreting weather maps.

-Completing comparative charts.

-Working on the Internet.

-Investigation about melting point of pure water and salty water.

-Free dialogue in class.

CONTENTS

Concepts

-Composition of the atmosphere.

-The layers in the atmosphere.

-Elements of the weather.

-The weather maps.

-Atmospheric pollution and its effects.

Procedures

-Extract information from tables, schemes, graphics and maps.-

Attitudes

-Value our planet and its rare balance in atmospheric gases.

-Interest to know and to understand the changing weather.

-Recognise the impact on the atmosphere in our lifestyle.

-Develop personal behaviours to reduce atmospheric pollution.

ASSESMENT

-Written tests.

-Homework.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit http://www.ieslosremedios.org/~pablo/webpablo/web1eso/3atmosphere/guiaatmosphere.html