This lesson plan is divided up into three activities, two of which take place outside. By the end of the lesson plan students will be able to describe weather conditions on a given day and some of the factors that contribute to them....

Find out about wind and jet streams and the tools that measure them.

To get a better idea of how meteorologists make weather predictions, students will begin their own weather journals and make rain gauges.

Explores the difference between weather and climate and how they are measured. Students will complete activities and construct a climate graph from raw data. They will also learn about the physical structure of the rainforest, its...

Use this site to find out how humidity works and perform some activities related to humidity.

What is wind? How is it caused? This site offers simple answers to many common questions about wind as well as a chart of the Beaufort scale, which "is an empirical measure for the intensity of the weather based mainly on wind power."

Students will learn the difference between global, prevailing and local winds. In this activity, students will make a wind vane out of paper, a straw and a soda bottle and use it to measure wind direction over time. Finally, they will...

Explains how dew point is used to show the amount of moisture in the air. Gives an activity for measuring the dew point at home.

Make your own anemometer like meteorologists use to measure the speed of wind. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what makes wind.