PBS
Twirling in the Breeze
Blow classes away with a hands-on lesson investigating wind speed. Learners use common materials to design and construct anemometers. They then test their anemometers and collect data on the wind speed created by a fan.
It's About Time
Volcanic Hazards: Airborne Debris
Pupils interpret maps and graph data related to volcanic ash. Then they analyze the importance of wind speed and the dangers of the ash to both life, air temperature, and technology.
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Weather Watch Activity Guide: Groundhog Day
Exactly what do groundhogs know about weather? Not as much as your science students will after completing these lessons and activities that cover everything from the earth's rotation and the creation of shadows, to cloud...
Curated OER
Wind Mapping With Bubbles
Students identify wind direction by using bubbles. For this weather lesson, students use a small container of bubbles and a map of their house to create a wind map. Students blow bubbles and note the general direction the bubbles are...
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Name that Wind
Students study wind and the direction terms related to wind. In this meteorology lesson, students learn about the wind directions by completing a wind direction activity where kids locate cones marked with the specific wind directions....
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Weather Report Chart
Young scholars complete a weather report chart after studying weather patterns for a period of time. In this weather report lesson plan, students measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and wind direction for a...
Curated OER
Finding Wind Direction
Students identify the wind direction. In this weather lesson plan, students use a weather vane to find the wind direction. Students complete a worksheet.
Curated OER
The Air Out There
Students build windmills and weather vanes. In this instructional activity on air, students build wind vanes and windmills to demonstrate that air moves. Students determine the direction of air movement and measure the speed at which it...
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Tracking the Weather
Learners 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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Agreeing on Terms
Students observe and describe the wind, analyze their descriptions for clarity, and compare them both with Jonas Ramoth's descriptions and with the Beaufort Wind Scale. observations.
Curated OER
Wind
Students complete activities to study wind intensity. In this wind study lesson, students discuss wind speed and direction. Students then build a kite and windsock to help them study wind intensity. Students learn to use a wind meter for...
Curated OER
Fronts
In this fronts worksheet, students use two diagrams to answer 12 fill in the blank questions about fronts, weather patterns, and clouds. Then students complete 2 short answer questions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Five Day View of the Jet Stream
This animation from NOVA Online lets you examine a five-day view of the jet stream.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Weather Scope: A Study of Weather and Climate
Use real-time data to study factors that affect weather and climate, create weather instruments, and share data with students around the world.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:2 Investigation 3 Wind
Learn how to measure the direction and speed of wind.
USA Today
Usa Today Weather: Using Winds and a Barometer to Make Forecasts
Describes the ways in which wind direction and barometric pressure can be used by the amateur weather forecaster to make predictions about the weather.
University of Wisconsin
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: Surface Weather Analysis
Explains the use of synoptic weather analysis in preparing weather maps and forecasting. Discusses the use of symbols as well.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Winds
Find out about wind and jet streams and the tools that measure them.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather: Whichever Way the Wind Blows
Students use the Engineering Design Process to create a windosck that can determine which way the wind is blowing.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Build Your Own Weather Station
Students are guided in how to build their own weather station that will measure temperature, humidity, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, and wind direction and speed.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Make a Weather Forecast
Review these tips and learn to make predictions of the weather.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Keep Your Own Weather Journal
This site, which is provided for by the Franklin Institute Online, gives a format for keeping a weather journal.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Make Your Own Weather Vane
As part of a unit on gathering data about the weather, this lesson features instructions for making a simple weather vane.
University of Missouri
University of Missouri Columbia/ Wind Energy
Wind data at several Missouri locations. Information on wind availability, rotor types, and uses.