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| Event: | Orange County Professional Development Workshop |
| Event Description: | “Cloud in a Bottle” and Density Currents Workshops Cloud in a Bottle Workshop Task Analysis: explains the process of cloud formation. Objective: Participants will understand the reason clouds formations. Hands on activities are performed to create adiabatic temperature changes (temperature changes caused by expansion and compression), condensation, and precipitation. After moisture and condensation nuclei are added to the bottle, participants create adiabatic temperature changes that cause the formation of the cloud in the bottle. Density Current Workshop Task Analysis: list processes that lift air in the formation of clouds. The density current hands on activity uses warm and cool fluids to show the motion of fluids when they come in contact with each other. This is related to movement of air masses within the atmosphere. Tornado In a Box” Workshop Task Analysis: Development of thunderstorms; describes the relationship between tornadoes and thunderstorms. Objectives: “Tornado In a Box”. Utilizing hands on activities, participants will develop a basic under standing of interrelationship between heat (indicated by temperature) and a model low-pressure system defined by the “cloud” formation and movement inside the tornado in the box. The “Tornado In a Box” is useful for studying certain aspects of model low-pressure systems. Natural low-pressure systems exist in phenomena such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and large, low-pressure weather systems, such as cyclones. The interrelationships between low-pressure systems and attributes such as temperature, humidity, low pressure, and wind speed are extremely varied and are keys to understanding important aspects of weather and climate. Space Weather Action Center Workshop Task Analysis: Solar weather- How solar activity can change climate. Objective: "Do sunspot regions exist today that could be a source of solar storms?" This activity uses the participants understanding of solar weather such as solar wind. Participants will utilize the Space Weather Action Center website to understand solar wind, sun spots and solar storm signals and how they affect earth’s climate. NASA's Sun-Earth Viewer provides current images of the sun taken by satellites and ground-based observatories. Participants examine images for evidence of sunspots, magnetic activity near the sun's surface, ultraviolet light emission from the sun and coronal mass ejections. |
| Event Location: | Kennedy Space Center NASA Educator Resource Center |
| Starts: | 8:30 a.m. on 4/11/2009 |
| Ends: | 2:30 p.m. |
| Point Of Contact (POC): | Birdette Brown |
| POC's Phone Number: | (321) 867-4090 |
| POC's Email: | Birdette.Brown-1@ksc.nasa.gov |
| POC's Mailcode: | ERC |
| Alternate POC: | Laura Baker |
| Alternate Number: | 321-867-9383 |
| The Event has been Designated: | Closed Teacher Workshops |
| Additional Information: | http://education.nasa.gov/edoffices/centeroffices/kennedy/erc/ERC.html |
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