Week 11: Climate Change

 1. What did you do in lab today?





2. big questions 

  • What is weather?
Weather is happening now - it is how the Earth is processing different things like fronts.

3. What did you learn in Thursday's discussion? N/A we had an exam.

4. Read the textbook: Done!

1. What did I learn from the textbook? Notes that I took from the chapter!





2. What was most helpful?

I really liked in lab being able to do our recall of the water cycle and what we did and did not remember. I also thought the activity relating to weather words was interesting - there are so many more words than I thought that my group mates and myself came up with!

3. What do you need more information on?

Nothing at the moment.

4. Questions, comments or concerns?

Not today.

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