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Weather instruments
Learners explore weather instruments. In this weather lesson, students make rain gauges, anemometers, and barometers following the instructions given in the lesson. Learners set up a weather station using their instruments and record and...
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Weather Watchers
Young scholars identify basic weather instruments and how they are used to record weather data. Students define several vocabulary terms as stated in lesson. Young scholars use basic instruments to record weather data in their area....
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Weather Tools
Students explore Earth science by participating in a weather identification activity. In this scientific instrument lesson, students identify several weather related tools such as the weather vane, thermometer and rain gauge. Students...
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Shedding Light on the Weather with Relative Humidity
Learners study weather using a graphing calculator in this instructional activity. They collect data for temperature and relative humidity for every hour over a day from the newspaper, then place the data in their handheld calculator and...
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Frost Depth Study
Learners complete activities to study the frost and frost depth. In this frost study lesson, students use frost tubes to study and measure the frost at their school. Learners measure the frost in the tube and enter their data online to...
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Too Heavy For Me
Learners explore the different arrangement of air molecules in high and low air pressure masses. They compare the temperature of high and low pressure masses and discover how a barometer works.
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Weather Everywhere
Students 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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Quadratic Functions and Stopping Distance
Students solve quadratic equations. In this algebra lesson, students factor and graph quadratic functions. they use the properties of quadratics to calculate the distance.
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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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Activities to Enhance STEDII Data
High schoolers develop an understanding of related weather processes such as wind, cloud cover, and temperature using STEDII data and instrumentation. In addition, they integrate mathematical calculations to produce a forecast map.
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Celsius Tells Temperature, Too
Second graders become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them.
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Chronic Conics
Fourth graders use two activities to draw four different conic sections. One activity is of a physical nature and one is traditional paper and pencil.
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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.
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Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Markov Chain Links
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this activity introduces students to the concept of Markov Chains, and shows students how to find the probability of something (dependent) happening in the future, given certain conditions...