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Conditions at Sea Introductory Activity, Making Waves
Students explore waves and wind. In this physical and earth science wave lesson, students participate in a wave making activity with an aquarium and a hair dryer. Students complete a data chart recording wave height and related factors....
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Create a Cloud In a Jar
Students investigate cloud formation. For this weather lesson, students examine how clouds are formed. Students participate in experiments that model how water vapor in the air works.
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Flipping Over Our Weather Reports
Students create their own weather report. In this weather lesson plan, students work in groups to predict the weather for three days and create their own video. They have a director, camera-person, still cameraman, and two weathermen.Â
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Weather Forecasting
Students discover how to read a current weather map. In this weather forecasting instructional activity, students view weather maps from three consecutive days and observe how quickly weather moves and changes. Students review key terms...
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Create a Pamphlet
Students explore weather conditions. For this weather investigation lesson, students use various search engines to list three facts about weather patterns, new vocabulary words, and a picture of a weather condition. Students use this...
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Weather "Whys" Lesson 2 Seasons
Students explore seasons. In this cross curriculum weather and seasons lesson, students identify characteristics of the four seasons and sequence related pictures. Students listen to poems and stories about trees in different seasons,...
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Excel temperature Graphs
Students gather data about the weather in Nome, Alaska. In this Nome Temperature lesson plan, students create an excel graph to explore the weather trends in Nome. Students will find the average weather and add a trend line to their graph.
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Adopt a City-Winter Weather
In weather worksheet, learners use an on line site to collect weather data. They create 10 different weather scenarios using a temperature and humidity slider. They includethe temperature, relative humidity and weather conditions and...
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Clouds
Students explore clouds. In this weather lesson, students identify the steps in the water cycle, define condensation and evaporation, and relate this information to cloud formation. Students perform a cloud experiment, predict weather...
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Elders' Weather Forecasting
Students interview an Elder to determine ways of forecasting the weather. In this weather lesson, students use the information from an interview to make a weather prediction.
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Trends Forecasting
Students practice trends forecasting to predict the weather. In this forecasting lesson plan, students learn how meteorologists predict the weather by looking at weather trends. They then predict their own forecast, analyze the results,...
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Weather Observation Journal
Students record weather for a period of one month. In this weather lesson, students observe weather for one month on a large pictograph. Students record clouds, wind, temperature and any other weather conditions they observe. Students...
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What's the Weather
Students discover what meteorology is and they participate in the daily activities of meteorologists, observing the weather and recording their findings. Â Students also create weather instruments from household objects to help with their...
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Predicting Storms and Weather
Students use weather pattern worksheets to research how weather is predicted. In this weather prediction lesson plan, students predict the weather based on the wind, rain, currents, and other patterns.
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The Weather Page-Comparing Data
Learners examine weather patterns in the United States. In this weather lesson, students use a United States map to identify high and low temperatures in two states. Learners compare the data and record their findings onto a chart.
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Tracking a Hurricane
Students play the role of amateur meteorologists and track a hurricane. For this hurricane lesson, learners follow a hurricane by tracking its coordinates on an overhead map. Students work in small groups to place dots on the map showing...
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Weather Reporter
Fourth graders generate an oral presentation on the weather. In this weather activity, 4th graders watch the weather for a week and record the data on a chart. Students give a weather report at the end of the week.
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Drought Threatens Huge Man-Made Lake
Students locate Lake Mead, then read a news article about Lake Mead drying up and how that would effect water and power supplies to the region. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a map and vocabulary...
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Clouds
Test your students' science and/or reading comprehension skills with this activity, which provides a page of information about clouds and cloud classification. Both an earth science teacher and a language arts teacher could use this...
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Precipitation Forecasting Activity
In this science worksheet, middle schoolers find the possible answers to the questions of weather forecasting. The four scenarios are given for the possible answers.
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The Four Seasons
Learners access, generate, process and transfer information utilizing appropriate technologies concerning the four seasons. They analyze and evaluate the program and then create a short PowerPoint Presentation on the information they...
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Weather Tools of the Trade
Fourth graders study the basic meteorological instruments (thermometer, barometer, weather vane, anemometer, and rain gauge). They explore how they are used, data that can be collected from them, and why records of the data are kept.
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Graphing the Weather
Fourth graders predict the weather for their area using simple weather instruments. They take readings for a month during a season and graph their results. Students describe weather patterns based on their data and predict future weather...
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Naming the Clouds
Fourth graders examine how water condenses into clouds and identify the different types of clouds using the same system devised over 200 years ago. They listen to a book about clouds, and create a Cloud Key. Next, they record their...