Jeff Perini
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Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, United States
About the store
I am a former secondary science and math teacher. I've taught life sciences, biological sciences, and math on the Middle School level and Earth and Space Sciences and Meteorology on the Senior High level. I've also spent a few semesters as an adjunct instructor for the City Colleges of Chicago. I am currently retired.
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Weather over Time: The Koeppen Climate Classification System
In this packet, students use monthly temperature and rainfall data to classify a city's climate using the Koeppen (Koppen) classification scheme. Students first graph the data, determine the Koeppen classification, and then select the most likely location from a list of U.S. cities. The teacher's notes include a detailed introduction to the Koeppen climate classification system. This activity would be suitable for earth and space science classes or for more advanced meteorology classes.
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment
Crop Circles: Cosmic Messages or Elaborate Hoaxes?
In 2002, the movie Signs popularized crop circles as landing markers for alien spacecraft. While the movie didn’t match today’s reality, crop circles are still being created around the globe. While the majority of crop circles have been proven to be hoaxed, there are still some that defy explanation. This 46-page learning modules draws information from print and internet sources to present a balanced view of the crop circle phenomenon. The five student activities look at unique features of sel
9th - 12th
Applied Math, Science
Amazing Mayan Astronomy
This learning packet allows students to discover the extent and gain an appreciation for the ancient Maya's vast astronomical knowledge, gathered and documented without any telescopes or computers. The included activities first introduce students to the Maya numbering system. Next, students examine excerpts of the surviving Maya documents (Dresden Codex) to discover their eclipse and Venus table. Lastly, students examine solar and stellar orientations of a few of the Maya's buildings and temp
9th - 12th
Ancient History, Archaeology, Astronomy
Becoming Weather-wise: Using Nature's Clues to Predict the Weather
This learning package presents students with a brief the history of and instructs them on how they can apply weather folklore to predict weather events. Students learn twenty useful weather sayings that help them recognize and become more in tune with nature’s weather clues. This package includes information on cloud types and fronts along with the scientific basis behind the folklore. The included student activity has them making three daily weather observations, predicting their local weather
8th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Environment
Tracking the Heavens - Was Stonehenge an Ancient Observatory?
This instructional packet introduces students to Stonehenge and allows them to discover the many astronomical orientations marked by the stones. Students are introduced to the history of Stonehenge, celestial coordinates altitude and azimuth (Alt/Az), solstices and equinoxes, and lunar standstills. Using Alt/Az coordinates, they plot significant solar and lunar events marked by the stones at Stonehenge. This packet also allows students to construct, using a soda can and file folder, a model of t
9th - 12th
Astronomy, British History, Earth Sciences
Ancient Astronomy: How two civilizations tracked time using the sun and moon
This learning module introduces students to the following prehistoric structures created and used to mark time by following the movement of the sun and moon: a 3-slab rock structure found high on Fajada butte in New Mexico built by the Anasazi and termed the Anasazi Sun Dagger, and a more expansive site, the Kokino Megalithic Observatory, found in Macedonia. Activities include determining the altitude/azimuth of solar events, comparing anasazi building orientation to lunar and solar events,
9th - 12th
Archaeology, Astronomy, Earth Sciences
Water and the Enviroment
This activity packet is designed to introduce students to and instruct them on how to calculate a water (soil moisture) budget using monthly precipitation, evapotranspiration values, and the soil capacity for three cities. The first activity is a teacher-led how to session designed to teach students how to calculate a water budget. Student Activity 1 has students calculate a water budget for Rockford, Ill. Student Activity 2 has the students graph the P, PE, and AE values to identify the soil
8th - 10th
Earth Sciences
Doomsday Predictor? Secrets of the Mayan Calendar
This packet introduces students to three of the time tracking methods used by the ancient Mayans: the long count, the Tzolkin and the Haab calendars. Students learn to convert the long count to days and then learn how to convert the days into the Tzolkin and Haab "dates". Using calculators, students work through six problems and ultimately calculate the Mayan date for December 21, 2012, which is the end of the 13th cycle. This packet contains background and explanatory material, a teacher's
9th - 12th
Applied Math, Archaeology, Astronomy
Native American Sun Watchers: The Great Serpent Mound and Poverty Point
It's not hard to imagine that the Sun, the brightest object in the sky, would draw the attention of Native American civilizations living throughout parts of the U.S. These ancient peoples could watch the sun move east to west across the sky each day and note its rising and setting locations along the horizon throughout the year. This lesson examines two different Native American mound sites: The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio and Poverty Point in Louisiana. After a brief introduction to both si
9th - 12th
Archaeology, Astronomy, Earth Sciences
Balloons Over America - How Radiosondes Help Predict our Weather
Twice a day, everyday, at 1300 stations around the world, weather balloons carry instrument packages up through the troposphere and radio back valuable information that greatly adds to our weather prediction capabilities. This packet introduces students to the concept of atmospheric stability and by calculating the Total Totals (TT) index, illustrates how meteorologists quantify stability in order to help them predict thunderstorms and tornadoes. The five in-depth activities use real-time dat
9th - 12th
Earth Sciences, Physical Science, Science
Landsat - Earth's Eyes in the Sky
Using the brief introductory pieces and supplementing it with materials and videos found on the referenced websites, this lesson introduces students to the Landsat program and how this program helps us monitor essential earth activities. In the student activity, the students examine real LANDSAT data to determine the identity of a 10 X 10 grid of land parcels in Georgia farming country.
8th - 10th
Earth Sciences
Lunar Mysteries of Stonehenge
Stonehenge has long been famous for its documented orientation to solar events, such as the summer solstice sun that ceremoniously rises over the Heal stone every June. This module introduces students to three other features at Stonehenge: the Aubrey holes and the set of Y and Z holes. In this learning module, students first look at the Aubrey holes to determine how and if the builders of Stonehenge could use them to predict eclipses. Activity 1 focuses on lunar eclipses, which would be visi
9th - 12th
Archaeology, Astronomy, Earth Sciences
Date of Easter Calculator
In this learning packet, students work through an algorithm that leads them to predict the month and day of Easter for any year (from 1583 onwards). Because the date of Easter is tied to the movement of the moon and earth around the sun, it can be predicted mathematically. This packet contains teacher notes, references, and an answer key (calculations necessary to predict the month/day of Easter for 2013). This packet would be appropriate for earth science, astronomy, or applied math classes
9th - 12th
Applied Math, Astronomy, Earth Sciences
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About the store
Experience
I am a former secondary science and math teacher. I've taught life sciences, biological sciences, and math on the Middle School level and Earth and Space Sciences and Meteorology on the Senior High level. I've also spent a few semesters as an adjunct instructor for the City Colleges of Chicago. I am currently retired.
Teaching style
I like to create lessons and activities that challenge the students and get them involved. Many of my posted and future posts will contain activities where the student will need to create and interpret graphs, calculate answers with a calculator, and/or formulate a hypothesis.
My own education history
During my undergrad years at Penn State, I majored in Meteorology, but also thought about teaching. In addition to my B.S. in meteorology, I also earned an instructional I certificate in Earth and Space sciences. For the next seven years, I served as a Senior high and middle school science teacher. Many of the lessons I've posted and plan to post for sale were developed while I was working in the classroom. Years later, I went back to Penn State and earned an M. Ed in training and development and finished my teaching career educating adults in the corporate setting.
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