Students discuss what happens when warm and cold air masses meet. They model the formation of fronts. They analyze a weather map and predict weather based on the location and movement of fronts.

Student Resources

• 8.1 Vocabulary
• 8.2 Modeling a Cold Front
• 8.3 Modeling a Warm Front
• 8.4 Types of Weather Fronts
• 8.5 Fronts on a Weather Map
• 8.6 Section 8 Assessment

Learn by Reading

For additional content-area reading, check out the Houghton Mifflin Science eBook: Grade 5, Unit D, pages 18–19.