Reflective Essay: The Connections Between Air And Water

The Connections Between Air and Water

In this unit, I have learned all about the movement of air and water, including how they move, and how their movements affect each other. This unit showed how the air and water are closely linked and can affect each other’s temperature, density, movement, and the way they interact with the Earth.

One topic we learned about during this unit was the movement of air and water. Air flows through the movement of currents, which are caused by uneven heating and different densities. Unevenly heated air results in warmer and cooler air, making the air rise and fall accordingly due to warmer air being less dense and cool air being more dense, which we learned about in activities DAY and NIGHT found on pages 85 and

I learned the most about myself in the Temperature Differences activity, the Daily Written Reflections, the Density Lab, and the Daily Rains activity. I chose these because the Temperature Differences worksheet really made me think about why the temperatures would be different, and the Daily Rains worksheet tested my ability to think about the causes of events based off of what I had learned. The Daily Written Reflections helped me develop my writing skills and my ability to think about causes and effects, and through the Density Lab, many calculations needed to be made which really helped me work on long division with decimals as well as some mental math. I think that the DWRs especially showed me that I tend to write long, detailed answers to written questions rather that short answers. I also learned from the Density Lab that I should work more on long division with large numbers, because I had some difficulties with that. In the beginning of this unit, I didn’t really know how the air and ocean interacted, but now I know much more about their connection. Throughout this unit, I learned many new things about the ties between the wind and water and about