Meteorology – Lab Station Activity
Meteorology lab stations in which student groups rotate through nine tasks on wind, convection cells, jet streams and global warming, logging their progress in a Lab Station Passport.
- Grades
- Grades 8–10, High School, Middle School
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Subject
- Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science
- Topic
- scientist, weather
- Resource types
- Labs, Experiments, Activities
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What's inside this resource
Engage middle and high school science students with this interactive Meteorology Lab Station Activity. Students will rotate through 9 stations to test their knowledge of weather concepts like convection cells, jet streams, global warming, and more. At each station, students will get hands-on with drawing models, conducting research, answering discussion questions, watching videos, and even creating their own quiz questions. Recording sheets are provided for students to document their learning. This self-guided activity requires almost no prep - just print, set up, and students will stay engaged as they move through the stations. Use this as a review, reinforcement, or assessment for your weather and climate curriculum. Suitable for physical science and environmental science classrooms. Fully customizable Word and PDF documents included.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Explain how convection cells and pressure differences produce wind
- Describe polar and subtropical jet streams and the Coriolis force
- Argue how global warming affects weather patterns in a written paragraph
Teaching tips
- The research station needs a search engine and the expert station needs a device to play a video clip, so plan devices for those two stops.
Skills covered
- Scientific modeling — students draw and label a wind-formation diagram
- Research — students look up the Intertropical Convergence Zone and record findings
- Question writing — students write and answer their own meteorology quiz questions
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
- Convection cells
- Jet streams
- Coriolis force
- Intertropical Convergence Zone
- Global warming
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