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Build a Thermometer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students build a thermometer. In this weather lesson, students use red food coloring, rubber stoppers, and hard plastic tubing to build a thermometer. Students use their homemade thermometer to measure the temperature.
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W Is for Water

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders gain appreciation of water by watching online video, "Weather Smart: The Water Cycle and Clouds," exploring how water cycle works, comparing and contrasting three states of water as solid, liquid, and gas, and discussing...
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Seasons Chart

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this science worksheet, students investigate the seasons of the year by completing a circular chart which has been divided into 4 quadrants. Students write the names of the months which belong to each season, illustrate and label the...
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Trade Winds

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this trade winds worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions on trade winds and how they affect the weather. Students complete 3 questions.
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Mittens! Mittens

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the warmth of different mittens.  In this cold weather clothes lesson, students decide which pair of mittens are the warmest. Students record and discuss their results. 
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Threatened, Endangered & Extinct Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine the basic needs of living organisms. In this science lesson, students study ecosystems and discover that organisms have basic needs that must be met.
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Are We There Yet?

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students make their way to British museums. In this field trip opportunities lesson, students visit the The Deep, the Science of Sport, the Castle Munster, or High Beeches online on in person to experience hands-on science instruction.
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Mystery Paint

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students use the scientific method to determine the properties of various kinds of paints, use collected data to identify paint samples that are not properly labeled and use proper science safety techniques while working with chemical...
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Talking About Clouds

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this weather worksheet, students read a selection about the water cycle and cloud identification. Then the students fill in the missing words in 5 sentences and write the name of 5 cloud types while describing the clouds.
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What Do We Use From the Rainforest?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify items we use from the rainforest. In this earth science instructional activity, students recall prior facts about the rainforest and list items we use from the rainforest. Students create "Rainforest Cookies" using...
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Eye of the Storm Scavenger Hunt

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this storms worksheet, students access the Internet to a specific website to research the answers to five short answer questions associated with a variety of different types of storms.
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Tsunami Survival

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners can explain the causes of a tsunami and its effects.  In this tsunami lesson, students create a tsunami generator.  Learners create waves with a metal plate. students create houses and find which designs last best in a...
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Dynamic Earth

For Teachers K - 5th
Students show how earthquakes affect sea waves. In this tidal waves instructional activity students use a rubber mallet on a table to create waves in a box on top of the table. They experiment with striking the mallet in different...
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Investigating Leaves Through Printmaking

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create leaf rubbings as they study the parts of a leaf. They describe the leaves and chart their observations.
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Everyone Knows It's Windy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create an anemometer, an instrument that measures wind speed.
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Climate in Our Back Yard

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students construct a "A Year in Pennsylvania" poster on which they creatively describe at least three examples of how the climate they live in shapes their lives during every season of the year.
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Clouds

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read a book on clouds and use the Internet to research how they are formed and the different formations. They also do an experiment.
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Half a Crossword

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this crossword learning exercise, students take turns to define a word from their crossword so their partners can add the word to their version of the puzzle. Students do not look at each other's crosswords until each word has been...
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Bank on it! Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this sentence completion instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to a paragraph about a tsunami with words in a word bank. Students fill in 20 words.
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Using Data Loggers

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this weather data worksheet, students use this worksheet to record data about temperature, wind speed, and more. Students complete 18 spaces on the chart.
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Water Cycle

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this weather instructional activity, students cut out the steps to the water cycle and glue them in the right order to create a diagram. There are nine steps for students to cut out.
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Weather/Science/Catch a Cloud

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students examine how clouds are made.
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Weather Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils gain an understanding of how meteorology affects our physical world and our lives. They utilize resources on web-based activities and participate in the classroom activities to enrich their understanding.
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Science: Hurricanes As Heat Engines

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners conduct Internet research to track the path of Hurricane Rita. They record the sea surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico during and after the hurricane and draw conclusions about how hurricanes extract heat energy from the...

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