Targeted Philippine Basic Education Curriculum Competencies
This unit covers the following BEC learning competencies in Integrated Science for the topic:

Precision and Accuracy in Data Gathering

• Measuring Instruments

Changes in the Environment 

• Demonstrate understanding of the changes in the atmosphere.
  • Explain how changes in different atmospheric factors affect the weather. 
  • Discuss how weather is predicted.

Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes
At the end of the unit, the students should be able to:
General Objectives:

• analyze the interrelationship of factors that affect weather
• make simple weather predictions based on analysis of weather data
• illustrate techniques used in weather modification and
• present arguments in support of or against weather modification.

Technology-Related Objectives:

• prepare presentations that clearly illustrate how the different weather elements affect the weather
• use a spreadsheet program in the graphing and analysis of collected data
• work collaboratively in coming up with group presentations and documents
• apply Internet research skills to gather raw materials for use in the reports and presentations and
• summarize results of research work and present the information as a presentation, webpage or a newsletter.

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