Clarification Statement - S.HS.ESS.2.8.CS:
Examples of evidence sources could include station models, surface weather maps, satellite images, radar, and accepted forecast models. Emphasis should focus on communicating how the uneven heating of Earth’s surface and prevailing global winds drive the

Assessment Boundary - S.HS.ESS.2.8.AB:
Analysis is limited to surface weather maps and general weather patterns associated with high and low pressure systems.

Science and Engineering Practices - 9-12.SEP4.1:
Analyze data using tools, technologies, and/or models (e.g., computational, mathematical) in order to make valid and reliable scientific claims or determine an optimal design solution.

Science and Engineering Practices - 9-12.SEP8.1:
Communicate scientific and technical information the process of development and the design and performance of a proposed process or system) in multiple formats (including orally, graphically, textually, and mathematically).

Disciplinary Core Ideas - S.HS.ESS.2.8.DCI:
ESS2.D: Weather and Climate •(NYSED) Concepts of density and heat energy can be used to explain observations of weather patterns.

Crosscutting Concepts - CC1.13:
Different patterns may be observed at each of the scales at which a system is studied and can provide evidence for causality in explanations of phenomena.

Crosscutting Concepts - CC1.15:
Empirical evidence is needed to identify patterns.

Crosscutting Concepts - CC2.8:
Empirical evidence is required to differentiate between cause and correlation and make claims about specific causes and effects.