This is a complete 5 E lesson covering weather and weather maps. Materials will be available that can be used for teacher instruction on weather maps. Students will have opportuities to investigate and analyze weather maps and make predictions using maps for impending weather.

Overview: I created this Lesson Plan to help students learn about how to read weather maps.  Weather maps give basic information about fronts, systems, and weather measurements.  Weather maps illustrate the weather conditions for an area at a given time.  SOL 6.7f states that students are expected to interpret basic weather maps, including the identification of warm and cold fronts.  Also, students are to map the movement of cold and warm fronts and interpret their effects on observable weather conditions.Prior to this lesson, students should have already been introduced to weather tools, cloud types and types of weather.

A sample question/problem in which students are asked to apply the logic of scientific evidence to statements about weather patterns, based on observations on a typical surface weather map.