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Making and Appraising Weather Instruments
For this science and technology worksheet, pupils answer 5 essay questions about weather instruments. Students draw and label pictures of rainfall and air pressure instruments. There is no information here.
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Science & Technology: Making and Appraising Weather Instruments
In this weather instruments worksheet, students make a weather instrument and then answer 8 questions about the specific instrument they made.
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Beacon Valley Weather
In Beacon Valley, katabatic winds regularly knock fit adults to the ground. The lesson compares the actual temperatures to the wind chill after factoring in katabatic winds in Beacon Valley. Scholars learn to calculate wind chill and...
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Review For Weather Quiz 2
In this science worksheet, students look at the information carefully in preparation for a formal assessment. The focus is upon defining different aspects of air masses.
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Wet Weather, Wet Climate
Pupils discover the differences between weather and climate in this long-term lesson introduction. They create rain gauges and practice reading rainfall measurements, view a website showing the cloud cover in their location and draw bar...
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How Do Weather Conditions and Lunar Cycles Affect Fishing Success?
Middle schoolers use weather measuring devices to record and study weather conditions at different locations, during different times. They attempt to draw conclusions about the relationship between weather conditions, lunar cycle and...
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Weather Everywhere
Learners 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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Meteorology
Second graders identify and describe the three types of clouds. They discover the type of weather associated with each cloud type as well. They ask questions to complete the instructional activity.
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Environment: Sounds of the Natural World
Second graders describe and imitate sounds from the natural environment including rain and snow. After listing materials that could be used to make rainsticks, they create their own instruments from cardboard tubes,beans, and sand. To...
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How Wet Did It Get?
Students measure the rainfall/snowfall on the playground on a rainy/snowy day with a rain/snow gauge. They draw a bar graph representing the amount of water that fell and observe a satellite image of the clouds and local weather system...
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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.
Discovery Education
Sonar & Echolocation
A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...
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NIGHT AND DAY: DAILY CYCLES IN SOLAR RADIATION
Students examine how Earth's rotation causes daily cycles in solar energy using a microset of satellite data to investigate the Earth's daily radiation budget and locating map locations using latitude and longitude coordinates.