The document outlines the fundamental components that create weather, listing sun, earth, air, and water as key ingredients. It explains how the earth's movement results in seasons, how water exists in various forms affecting atmosphere, the sun's energy driving weather patterns, and the significance of air in weather formation. It encourages readers to reflect on and describe how these elements interact to produce different weather conditions.

1. RECIPE: WEATHER What creates weather anyway?!

2. INGREDIENTS: We have 4 elements in nature that would be our ingredients in the overall recipe of weather… Sun Earth Air Water

3. How do the SUN, AIR, EARTH, & WATER make our weather?  (Click the image to find out!)

5. EARTH The earth’s actions help make our weather by creating seasons… Spinning on its axis and revolving around the sun is the reason for the seasons!

7. WATER Water is always in the air! Gas , Liquid , & Solid forms in the atmosphere all affect our weather.

9. SUN The sun is responsible for almost all of our weather! Energy from the sun (heat) combines with our other ingredients to make every type of weather that happens...

11. AIR Weather wouldn’t even exist without the air in our atmosphere . Air has weight & pressure and temperature – all big parts of this ingredient!

13. Drawing of 1 st ingredient Drawing of 2 nd ingredient Drawing of 3 rd ingredient Drawing of 4 th ingredient (YOUR NAME HERE)

14. (Write your ideas about how the ingredients make our weather.) ***USE A MAIN IDEA SENTENCE & SUPPORTING DETAILS!*** Write 4 sentences here – one using each of the four ingredients listed above. You can write anything you remember learning about the four parts today… --OR-- You can make an educated guess of how these ingredients work together or combine to create different types of weather!