How Air Starts Moving – Teacher Guide

Summary

Students work through four real-world scenarios, from a sea breeze at the beach to an approaching cold front, and use temperature, density, and pressure to predict which way the wind will blow. The teacher guide includes a step-by-step procedure, discussion prompts for each stage, and a full answer key for all four scenario tables and diagrams. It ends with an engineering question about why some places are better for wind turbines than others. It fits well in a middle school Earth science weather unit.