7th+Science

7th Science

[|Sun Earth Moon]

You will make a study guide using the different links on this website. Make up 5 Multiple Choice and 10 fill in the blank questions to trade with a partner.

**You are to research a weather phenomenon such as hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, flash floods, droughts, avalanches, ice storms, acid rain, landslides, lightning, dust storms, lake effect snows, water spouts, wind storms, etc.**

**You are to cover the following topics, as they apply to your weather phenomenon.**
 * Cause of the phenomenon (What is it? Where in the world it occurs? When it occurs? Why it occurs?
 * Are there different types
 * Effects of the weather phenomenon
 * Safety considerations
 * Fun Facts/Stories
 * See rubric for further requirements

**Don't forget!!!** **Check out the following links to research your weather phenomenon. Be sure to record the website address (URL) of any information you use so that it can be included in your bibliography. Do not forget to use textbooks, encyclopedia, magazines, etc in your research! You may also use other websites as long as they are reliable sources. The actual web addresses are listed first and the direct link is below.** __[]__ __[|How Stuff Works--Lightning]__

__[]__ __[|How Stuff Works--Hurricanes]__

__[]__ __[|Extreme Weather Sourcebook]__

http://www.chaseday.com/hail.htm __[|Hail Storms]__

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-winter-storms.htm __[|Weather Whiz Kids]__

__[]__ __[|Weather Channel]__

__[]__ __[|National Weather Service--NOAA]__

__[]__ __[|KidStorm]__

__[]__ __[|Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page]__

Presentation Options.  ï **//Keynote...7-10+ slides. Must contain appropriate backgrounds and graphics, be grammatically correct, have a title slide and end with a Bibliography slide. References to include but not limited to 3 sources.//** 

**The project is due on 12-21. Please familiarize yourself with the attached rubric. Research time will be provided during class for you to acquire text for further research. This will also require additional work outside of class/school. Do not wait until the last minute to complete this project. Do not plagiarize (copy word-for-word).**

***1. What it is?** ***2. Where it occurs?** ***3. When it occurs?** ***4. Why it occurs?** || **Incomplete/Poor** **-describes their weather phenomenon briefly with little evidence of research** || **Poor** **-describes their weather phenomenon using 2 of the 4 descriptors** || **Good** **-adequately describes their weather phenomenon using 3 of the 4 descriptors** || **Excellent** **-effectively describes their weather phenomenon using all 4 descriptors** || ***1. On people** ***2. On the Environment** ***3. On Animals** || **Incomplete/Poor** **-explains only 1 of the three effects of their weather phenomenon** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Poor** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-explains 2 of the 3 effects of their weather phenomenon in detail** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Good** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-explains all 3 of the effects of their weather phenomenon in detail** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Excellent** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-effectively explains all 3 effects of their weather phenomenon in SPECIFIC detail** || **1. Why is it important to be prepared?** **2. How are you to be prepared?** || **Incomplete/Poor** **-no safety procedures were described using words or illustrations** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Poor** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-some safety procedures (1-2 examples) were described using words or illustrations** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Good** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-some safety procedures (3-4 examples) were described using words or illustrations** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Excellent** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-many safety procedures (5 or more) were described using words and illustrations** || **What interesting/unknown facts did you learn?** || **Incomplete/Poor** **-no facts were provided about the weather phenomenon** **OR** **-no story was provided about the weather phenomenon** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Poor** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-one or two facts were provided about the weather phenomenon** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**OR** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-one story was provided about the weather phenomenon** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Good** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-three to four facts were provided about the weather phenomenon** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**OR** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-one or two stories were provided about the weather phenomenon** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Excellent** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-five or more facts were provided about the weather phenomenon** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**OR** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-three or more stories were provided about the weather phenomenon** || **-the completed project was not neatly written and organized, and did not contain any illustrations. There were many grammar and punctuation errors in the project. (5 or more)** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Poor** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-the completed project was neatly written and organized but did not include any illustrations. Project contained 3-4 punctuation and grammatical errors.** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Good** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-the completed project was neatly written, organized and some illustrations were used.** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**Project contained 1-2 punctuation and grammatical errors.** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Excellent** <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">**-The completed project was neatly written, organized and illustrated. There was no punctuation or grammatical errors.** ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">**Severe Weather Project** ||
 * || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Incomplete 1pts** || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Poor 2 pts**  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Good 3pts**  || <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">**Excellent 4pts**  ||
 * __**Description of Severe Weather Phenomenon**__
 * __**Effects of the Weather Phenomenon**__
 * __**Safety Procedures**__
 * __**Fun Facts/Stories**__
 * __**Appearance, Punctuation and Grammar**__ || **Incomplete/Poor**