Project Atmosphere Canada - Teacher's Guide
Publisher's Description
Project Atmosphere Canada (PAC) is an educational initiative of Environment Canada and the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society directed towards teachers to promote an interest in meteorology amongst young people, and to foster the teaching of the atmospheric sciences and related topics in Canada in Grades K to 12. The long-term goal is to provide a higher level of training for teachers in the atmospheric sciences, which in turn will enhance teacher effectiveness in generating interest and understanding in science, technology, and mathematics among students at the high school level.
The Project Atmosphere Canada - Teacher's Guide consists of the following modules:
- Hazardous Weather: Overview
- Weather Radar: Detecting Precipitation
- Weather Radar: Detecting Motion
- The Coriolis Effect
- El Niño: The Atmosphere-Ocean Connection
- Air-Sea Interaction
- Clouds
- Pressure - Highs and Lows
- Westerlies and the Jet Streams
- Sunlight and Seasons
- The Atmosphere Aloft
- Water Vapour and the Water Cycle
- Weather Satellites
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