Modeling Earth Science

         For my Earth Science lesson I used maps and graphs from weather.com to show factors that affect weather. The student collected data on weather conditions and then used the graphs and maps to explain what factors would be causing those weather conditions. The lesson was a little difficult to do because of my limited access to school age students. I had to give the lesson to my nephew over Skype because of being on summer break and living across the country from all of my relatives. He did really well with the lesson and was able to complete the entire activity. I had to give him a data table to fill out and some help graphing the data but he was able to explain the data and form conclusions on his own.  He loved using the area maps on the website which also show realtime movement of weather systems. I thought the maps worked great for showing how weather and climate work. There are also other web resources we used to show the earths positioning from the sun. The only difficulty I had was implementing a lesson from 2000 miles away, otherwise it went well and my nephew reached my goals.