Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Safety in the Classroom Practices -- Standards Organizational Matrix -- Activities at a Glance Matrix -- Activity 1 Planner -- Act 1- Weather Watch -- Activity 2 Planner -- Act 2- Making Gas -- Activity 3 Planner -- Activity 3- The Pressure's On -- Activity 4 Planner -- Act 4- The Percentage of Oxygen in the Atmosphere -- Activity 5 Planner -- Act 5- It's in the Air -- Activity 6 Planner -- Act 6- Why Is It Hotter at the Equator Than at the Poles? -- Activity 7 Planner -- Act 7- Which Gets Hotter: Light or Dark Surfaces? -- Activity 8 Planner -- Act 8- Up, Up, and Away! -- Activity 9 Planner -- Act 9- Why Winds Whirl Worldwide -- Activity 10 Planner -- Act 10- Recycled Water: The Hydrologic Cycle -- Activity 11 Planner -- Activity 11- Rainy Day Tales -- Activity 12 Planner -- Act 12- A Cloud in a Jar -- Activity 13 Planner -- Act 13- Just Dew It! -- Activity 14 Planner -- Act 14- Let's MakeFrost -- Activity 15 Planner -- Act 15- It's All Relative! -- Activity 16 Planner -- Act 16- Moving Masses -- Activity 17 Planner -- Act 17- Interpreting Weather Maps -- Activity 18 Planner -- Act 18- Water Can Be Supercool! -- Activity 19 Planner -- Act 19- Riding the Wave of a Hurricane -- Readings -- Reading 1- Earth's Atmosphere -- Reading 2- El Niño Southern Oscillation(ENSO) -- Reading 3- The Facts About Ozone -- Reading 4- Air Pollution and Environmental Equity -- Reading 5- Weather and the Redistribution of Thermal Energy -- Reading 6- Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect -- Reading 7- Environmental Effects of Acid Rain -- Reading 8- Weather's Central Actor: Water -- Reading 9- The Inner Workings of Severe Weather -- Reading 10- Flash to Bang -- Reading 11- Scales in Meteorology -- Resources -- About the Authors -- Index.