Atmospheric Sciences Competency
Activity Plans

• Ozone Dance: Helps students understand some of the chemistry and physics concepts involved in the stratospheric ozone layer

• Remote Sensing: Explains some activities involved in remote sensing

• Cookies and Air Pressure: Demonstrates the effects of air pressure.

• Harming the Atmosphere: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect.

• Greenhouse Effect: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect.

• Living in a Greenhouse: A lesson to explain the "greenhouse effect."

• The Atmospheric Filter: Demonstrates how the components of Earth's atmosphere absorb or distort incoming electromagnetic radiation

• Simple Spectroscope: Constructing and demonstrating the use of a spectroscope.

• Cloud Classifications: An activity to classify cloud types through infrared APT imagery.

• Clouds: A discussion of cloud formation and typical cloud types that are associated with midlatitude cyclones.

• Measurement: Understand fundamental concepts of measurement through activities.