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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students read the big bookWhat the Weather Be Like Today from Scholastic Publishers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - Higher Ed
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Students explain ways that meteorologists measure and predict weather, collaborate on creating some weather measurement instruments and keep a weather journal for one week. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students pull from their research, conversations, and everyday lives to determine whether or not an area is safe enough from severe weather to make a home. They are challenged to form an opinion, and justify their ideas to others. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students record, graph and analyze weather data, and compare and contrast bar graph results to determine seasonal changes in the weather. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students record five daily observations on their charts, practice reading a thermometer and recording daily temperature twice a day, and make three day weather predictions including temperature, sky conditions, precipitation, and wind speed. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students use bookmarked websites to get up-to-date weather data, and record the data on a chart for later analysis and graphing. Students spend 5 minutes a period for approximately 10-15 days doing data collection. Students describes the conditions of the atmosphere at a given location for a short period of time. Student are able to track local weather patterns and forecast weather using accumulated data. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discover the functions of instruments used to help predict the weather. In groups, they use the Beaufort Scale to calculate the wind speed and a chart to determine cloud cover. They complete a worksheet to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students explore weather forecasting. For a week, students observe weekly weather forcasts on different television channels. They predict which station is more accurate with their predictions. Students record and chart predicitions and forecasts. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students simulate weathering and erosion using sand and soil. They define weathering and the ways in which surfaces become weathered. Working as a class, students complete various activities that demonstrate physical and chemical weathering. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students investigate what natural events cause rocks to break apart and differentiate between erosion and weathering. They conduct an experiment with plaster of paris to observe why some rocks are hard and others break, and observe a demonstration of erosion using sand, water, and objects on a tray. Students then independently complete a worksheet. Full Review »
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