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Build a Precipitation Gauge
Students build a precipitation gauge. In this weather lesson, students follow step-by-step directions to build a precipitation gauge that can be used to measure snowfall.
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Weather Report Chart
Students complete a weather report chart after studying weather patterns for a period of time. In this weather report lesson, students measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and wind direction for a month. Students...
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Rising Air
Students investigate the concept of rising air in the formation of clouds and precipitation. In this rising air instructional activity, students conduct an experiment with hot and cold water that shows how warm water rises due to thermal...
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Water Cycle Adventure
Students take an imaginary journey through the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson, students identify the various parts of the water cycle, listen while their teacher leads them on an imaginary journey through the water cycle, and...
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The Water Cycle
Students explore the water cycle. In this earth science lesson plan, they read the book Water Dance by Thomas Locker and use an interactive whiteboard to review the water cycle with an interactive website.
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Tracking the Weather
Students study the weather over time in this lesson. In this weather lesson, students record weather information from the newspaper over a month's time. They record the wind speed and direction, the barometric pressure, the air...
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Science--"Water, Water Everywhere"--Exploring Liquids
In this water worksheet, students read a 1 page article on water, fill in the blanks of 3 words with their missing letters, fill in a crossword puzzle containing 5 clues about water and answer 1 short answer question. Students draw a...
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Recycling Water
In this water instructional activity, learners review the steps involved in the water cycle. This instructional activity has 9 fill in the blank and 3 short answer questions.
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What is the Water Cycle?
In this water cycle worksheet, students will write in a description for the 3 stages of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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How Does the Water Cycle Affect Weather?
In this water cycle worksheet, students will look at the 3 main stages of the water cycle to determine how these stages affect the weather. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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What is Climate?
In this climate worksheet, students will compare and contrast the characteristics of a polar climate with a temperate climate and write their answers in a graphic organizer.
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Weather Patterns II
For this weather worksheet, learners use the diagram shown to explain what kinds of clouds form along the different types of air fronts. Then they describe what happens to the temperature when a particular front passes through. Students...
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Forecasting Weather
In this weather worksheet, students conduct an experiment where they record the weather observations for a week. Then they determine the air pressure using an aneroid barometer and estimate the amount of sky covered by clouds. Students...
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Climate Types
In this weather instructional activity, learners describe the rainfall distribution found in two different areas of the world. Then they compare the various types of climates found around the world using the graphs shown on the sheet.
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Precipitation, Acids and Bases, and Molarity
In this chemistry worksheet, students write the net ionic equations for any precipitation reactions that occur on mixing aqueous solutions for each of the substances listed. Then they write the net ionic equations for the acid/base...
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Charting Weather: Melbourne
In this earth science worksheet, middle schoolers check the accuracy of the weather forecasts in their area for a week. Then they complete the chart by recording the forecast for the week's weather and then recording the actual weather...
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Clouds and Precipitation Review
In this science worksheet, young scholars review the concepts that tie the relationship of clouds and how they collect precipitation in response to changes in humidity.
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Water Cycle
In this water cycle worksheet, students answer questions about the water cycle using a word bank. Students label a diagram of the water cycle.
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Weather
Second graders study the basic components of weather. They construct a thermometer and anemometer to measure temperatures, precipitation, and wind speed. In addition, 2nd graders discover how to find these components on weather maps.
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Biocomplexity Lab Activity: Creating Salt Water
The lesson seeks to intorduce to students the properties of salt water and how to create salt water. Teacher gives backgound information about salt water to students. From that point, students dscuss what elements are in salt water....
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ANIMALS OF ANTARCTICA
Students are introduced to the animals of Antarctica and how they adapt to their environment and the changes of the seasons after being read the story,"Counting Penguins" . They pick an animal and predict how he/she thinks this animal...
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Biome Trip
Tenth graders comprehed how individual organism adapt and relate to an environment. They investigate where biomes are located and what specific biomes are like. Pupils give examples of biomes (land and water), and how temperature and...
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Precipitation Monitoring
Young scholars monitor the pH level of the precipitation in their local area for one month. In this hands-on activity, students use lab equipment to measure the pH levels and an online tool to track their findings. Ultimately, young...
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Infiltration
Pupils investigate how the amount of water that can infiltrate into the soil is influenced by precipitation factors and the nature of the soil. The precipitation factors are type of precipitation, amount, duration and intensity of...