In This Lesson You Will…

  • Learn about Virginia’s climate and how geography plays a role in the climate and weather experienced in the state.
  • Discuss the different weather related impacts on Virginia.

2.6: The student will investigate and understand basic types, changes, and patterns of weather.

4.6: The student will investigate and understand how weather conditions and phenomena occur and can be predicted.

6.3: The student will investigate and understand the role of solar energy in driving most natural processes within the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and on Earth’s surface.

6.6: The student will investigate and understand the properties of air and the structure and dynamics of Earth’s atmosphere.

ES.12: The student will investigate and understand that energy transfer between the sun and Earth and its atmosphere drives weather and climate on Earth.


View the Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning Documents for Science