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Creating Weather Journals

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Students create weather journals. In this weather science lesson, students use digital cameras to record the daily weather and write a paragraph in a weather journal.

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weather data, weather, meteorology

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weather activity, weather data, weather journal, science
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Grade
K - 3rd
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
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For Teacher Use
Duration
5 days
Instructional Strategy
Research

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