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Investigation 8 - Weather Forecasts
Fourth graders examine how to predict and evaluate weather forecasts. Discuss with students why weather predictions are important to us. Ask them what people do after they hear a forecast. They brainstorm reasons forecasts are important...
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Writing a Weather Report or Weather Forecast
Young scholars examine their geography skills. In this weather forecasting activity, students select a location and research it. Young scholars write a weather report or forecast for the chosen location based on their research.
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Weather Report Chart
Students complete a weather report chart after studying weather patterns for a period of time. In this weather report lesson, students measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and wind direction for a month. Students...
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Jupiter's Weather Forecast
Students read information about Jupiter and the planet's weather. In this Jupiter weather instructional activity, students read information about Jupiter's weather. Students study a chart about the weather on Earth and Jupiter. Students...
Teach Engineering
Backyard Weather Station
Challenge young meteorologists to apply their knowledge of weather to build their own weather stations. The resource provides the directions to build a weather station that contains a wind vane, barometer, thermometer, and rain gauge....
NOAA
How Do We Know?: Make Additional Weather Sensors; Set Up a Home Weather Station
Viewers learn about three different weather measurement tools in installment five of the 10-part Discover Your Changing World series. They build weather vanes to collect data on wind speed, barometers to determine air pressure, and rain...
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A Comparison of Cloud Coverage Over Africa
Students use a NASA satellite data to contrast amounts of cloud coverage over different climate regions in Africa. They explore how Earth's major air circulations affect global weather patterns, and relate to local weather patterns.
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Weather Lesson Five
Students define a weather forecast, make a forecast using a weather map, identify three prediction guidelines, and explain how computers help to make forecasts. Students make a 24-hour forecast for each of the thirteen states targeted.
Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist
Play Ball! – Or Not…Making a Decision Using Weather Data
Should the game go on or not? An engaging lesson asks small groups to make a decision using weather data. After analyzing a map, an updated forecast, and radar information, groups have to decide whether to cancel a baseball game. They...
Pimsleur
What's the Weather?
Help your Spanish language learners with their small talk with instruction on how to talk about the weather. After reviewing weather vocabulary words, learners examine news sources together for the weather report. They keep journals...
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Weather Quiz
Are you ready to quiz your beginning Spanish language learners on weather-related vocabulary? Three exercises are provided here; the first exercise has learners complete a paragraph with the four vocabulary words provided. Then, learners...
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Weather Forecasting
Fourth graders explore the concepts of weather forecasting. Students locate the current weather in a specified city. In groups, they record the specified weather information and make predictions of weather. Students justify their...
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Weather Forecasting
Young scholars describe how weather forecasting has evolved. In this forecasting lesson students study the different types and ways that people forecast weather.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Weather and Climate: What's the Difference?
Future weather forecasters collect daily temperatures over a period of time. Afterward, they compare their data with monthly averages, as researched on national weather websites, in order to grasp the difference between weather and...
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Weather Tools
How do we know so much about the weather? Young scientists will learn all about the various tools used to detect changes in daily weather patterns. Each slide contains illustrations and detailed descriptions of tools, such as a...
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EWOC2006-Make your own weather forecast - WEST
Students explore making their own weather forecast. They view and discuss a forecasting PowerPoint presentation. Students analyze radar and satellite imagery. They compile many ways to observe clouds.
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Weather Patterns
Students research to determine weather patterns and natural hazards most likely to affect their region.
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Weather Forecast
Students forecast the weather. For this weather lesson, students are assigned a day to give the weather forecast. Students write a script and video their weather forecast.
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Weather Report
Students present the weather report in Spanish. For this weather lesson, students use weather vocabulary in Spanish. Students work in groups to present the local weather report in Spanish. Students film their report and present to the...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Weather or Not, Seasons Change
Embark on a year long investigation of the seasons with this 10-lesson earth science unit. After being introduced to different types of weather and the tools used to measure it, young scientists perform fun hands-on activities that teach...
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Weather instruments
Students explore weather instruments. In this weather lesson, students make rain gauges, anemometers, and barometers following the instructions given in the lesson. Students set up a weather station using their instruments and record and...
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Student News And Weather Channel
Fabulous! Your 5th graders should love this project. As an ongoing lesson throughout the year students use temperature probes to record outside temperature and then document their data using spreadsheets. They use their weather data and...
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Weather Forecasting: From Then to Now
Eighth graders review the history of weather forecasting. In this earth science instructional activity, 8th graders identify the different tools used in forecasting weather. They explain why it's important to know the weather.
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Precipitation Forecasting Activity
In this science worksheet, students find the possible answers to the questions of weather forecasting. The four scenarios are given for the possible answers.
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