Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Charting the Weather
During this instructional activity, students will gather data from temperature and water gauges set up on the playground to learn about weather patterns. Then students will build a spreadsheet with data related to temperature, wind...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Analyze: Forecast the Weather
Choose a weather-related topic, view the map, then make your own weather forecast.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Recording the Weather Around Us Using a Science Notebook in Second Grade
In this investigation, students will observe the weather and use weather terminology to document data in a science notebook. They will continue to observe and record their weather data throughout the year, looking for changes due to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weather Detectives
This is an introductory instructional activity to a second grade weather unit. The students will be observing the weather each day for one week and recording their observations in a chart. The students will be integrating information...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Step by Step Weather Observations
Students act as citizen scientists and take and record the local temperature, and compare it with national readings.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Phenology Weekly
A long-term project lesson plan where students observe seasonal changes by recording observations and data of the weather conditions. Students will understand how to use a light meter, thermometer, anemometer, and rain gauge with this...
NOAA
Noaa: Storm Tracks
Monitor the evolution of storms in the northern and southern hemispheres using data such as sea level pressures, wind speed and wave height. Records go back as far as 90 days.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring and Comparing Temperatures
Using thermometers, learners will compare differences in the temperature of various materials and locations. They will record and chart the data that was collected and present the graphs to their classmates.