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Pbs: Rough Science: Weather Station

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PBS asks users to imagine that they are in the tropics and need to get a reliable weather forecast. It provides instructions on how to build a wind vane, construct a compass, make a barometer and find the dew point.

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Concepts
weather, weather forecasting, weather station
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Additional Tags
build a wind vane, calculate the moisture content of the air, construct a compass, determining wind direction, finding the dew point, make a barometer, pbs, predict changes in the weather
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
NGSS
MS-ESS2-5