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Students explore common tools used to measure weather. For this science lesson, students read a thermometer and discuss the various activities that one would participate in during that temperature.
Students examine instruments used to measure weather, record the data, and post it to an online weather report. They include a 24 hour prediction, keep a weather log, and graph the data.
Fifth graders observe and identify weather conditions. In this weather conditions lesson, 5th graders study an extreme weather table and use sources to identify weather conditions. Students make their own weather condition table and a daily record chart. Students record the weather over a 5 day period.
In this measuring weather worksheet, students fill in the blank of 4 statements about the different tools scientists use to measure weather. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
Students work in cooperative groups to create a working weather station. Tkey use the weather station to collect weather data over a one-week period. Students compare the data from their weather station to actual weather information from newspapers or online sources.
Fourth graders observe and write descriptions of the weather in a journal for one week. They research the daily journals of Lewis and Clark, compare the weather words used to their own personal journals, and discuss the need to accurately measure weather.
Young scholars explore the Earth's climatic regions and their characteristics. Using the Internet, they evaluate regional vegetation, agriculture, and population density. Students name and describe instruments that measure weather. They produce a simulated "weather news" program.
Third graders explore how to predict weather. In this weather lesson, 3rd graders visit weather.com and hypothesize about tools, instruments, and methods used to predict weather. Students work in small groups to design and build an instrument for predicting the weather. Each group collects data for two weeks, then the class reviews and compares data as a whole.
Students research weather instruments. In this weather lesson, students use the Global Climate DVD and take notes on weather instruments. Students answer multiple choice questions on a worksheet.
Students explain ways that meteorologists measure and predict weather, collaborate on creating some weather measurement instruments and keep a weather journal for one week.