Warm and Cold Air

In this warm and cold air learning exercise, students list the characteristics of both warm and cold air, and draw a warm and cold weather front.

In this warm air versus cold air worksheet, students conduct an experiment with water color in warm air and cold air. students complete 4 activities.

Young scholars discover that warm air takes up more space than cold air.  In this science activity, students perform 4 experiments using balloons to determine that the molecules of warm air are more spread out than those of cold air.

In this air masses worksheet, students read two paragraphs about air masses, cold fronts, warm fronts, and stationary fronts. They answer five short answer questions about the reading.

Students experiment with bunsen burners and beakers of water to see how the earth's atmosphere acts like a thermometer. They explain how temperature causes movement in the air and how warm and cold fronts cause weather changes.

In this convection currents learning exercise, students draw, cut and decorate a spiral snake on a sheet of paper. Students attach a piece of thread to its head and hang it over a hot radiator and watch the snake spin as the warm air rises.

Did you know more than two-thirds of Earth's tornadoes occur in the united States? Watch a video that explains how tornadoes form due to fast moving warm and cold air, and the unpredictability and dangers of twisters.

Students conduct an experiment to discover what happens to air when it is heated or cooled, discover that wind moves from a high-pressure area (an area of sinking air) to a low pressure area (an area of rising air).

Students discover that when a large body of air remains over an area for several days or weeks, the body of air may change its thermal and moisture properties according to the land or water under it. They use maps to categorize bodies of...

Young scholars are given maps depicting two or more air masses and they then categorize bodies of air by temperature and moisture characteristics. They recognize large regions of similar type air. Students are given a map of air...