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December 2000 — Weather
Dear Teacher,
It's interesting for students to study weather in their region, but also to learn about different types of weather that occur the world. Just scan this page to see the many lessons and resources we have for you to whet the appetites of your budding meteorologists.
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Lesson Plans and Student
Activities:
Animal Adaptation Web Adventure (Student Activity)
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle
Students explore animal behavior in
relation to extreme weather.
Autumn Leaf Art Projects
Grade
Levels: Pre-K, Primary
Students
use brightly colored autumn leaves to create art pieces.
Celsius and Fahrenheit Conversions
Made Simple
Grade Levels: Intermediate,
Middle
Through simple addition, subtraction, and multiplication,
convert Celsius to Fahrenheit (and vice versa).
Climate
Activities
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This activity helps students understand that weather and
climate are affected by many factors.
Earthscape (Student
Activity)
Grade Levels: Intermediate,
Middle
Study how ice, water, and wind change the surface of our
planet.
Glacial Pressure
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle
A
hands-on activity will help students understand the formation of glaciers.
Graphing Temperatures
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle
Temperature
data from around the United States is gathered and displayed in a line graph.
How Can You Make a
Cloud?
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
Help your
students appreciate the importance of clouds and understand some of the many variables that must be
considered in a study of weather.
How Can You Make a
Thermometer?
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This activity shows students how to create a thermometer "from scratch."
Observing Crystals
Grade Levels: Primary, Intermediate, Middle
Students observe crystals by
"growing" them.
Rainfall
Grade
Levels: Primary, Intermediate
Students interpret the data on a
graph that plots rainfall.
Snow Journals
Grade Levels: Primary, Intermediate, Middle
Learn observation skills while
viewing snow.
The Snow
Kids
Grade Levels: Primary,
Intermediate
This puppet play is about
four snow kids who want to "see" more of the world.
Viewing Snow Flakes
Grade
Levels: Primary, Intermediate,
Middle
Learn
about star crystals and observe snow crystals with your students.
The Water Cycle (Student
Quiz)
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle
See what your
students know about the parts of the Water Cycle.
Water, Wind, and Earth (Student
Quiz)
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle
Challenge
your students' knowledge on weather.
Weather (Student Quiz)
Grade
Levels: Intermediate, Middle
Review key concepts on
weather with this quiz.
Weather Around the World
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle
Students look at a weather map and use its key to find high
and low temperatures.
Weather Conversions
Grade
Levels: Middle, Secondary
Students
locate information on an Internet site and define atmospheric pressure, practice
converting units of pressure, and write
formulas describing their work.
Weather Station
Grade Levels:
Intermediate, Middle
With a student-made weather
station, students measure weather in a variety of ways, write about procedures,
make predictions, and use averaging.
Winter Word Problems
Grade
Levels: Intermediate, Middle
Students
solve word problems relating to snowfall.
Reference Articles and Printables
Air Pressure and
Humidity
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
Students can find explanations of air pressure
and humidity.
Beaufort Wind Scale
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This chart details the Beaufort Wind Scale.
Cloud Types
Grade
Levels: Intermediate, Middle, Secondary
Find out
the names of types of clouds.
Greatest Snowfalls
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This chart lists the greatest recorded snowfalls.
The
Great White Hurricane
Grade Levels: Intermediate,
Middle, Secondary
Learn about the enormous blizzard of
1888.
Lowest Recorded
Temperatures
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This chart lists the lowest recorded temperatures.
Meteorology
Vocabulary (PrintablePDF
Help )
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
Students can use this guide to meteorological terms and definitions.
Types
of Snow
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This article explains where snow comes from and discusses
different types of snow crystals.
Water Cycle
Diagram (Printable PDF Help )
Grade Levels: Intermediate,
Middle
Refer to this full-color diagram of the water cycle.
Weather
Literature Tie-Ins
Grade Levels: All
Weather is a major theme or problem in many books.
Weather
Symbols (Printable PDF Help )
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
Learn the symbols used on weather maps.
Wind Chill Factors
Grade
Levels: Intermediate, Middle, Secondary
This chart
factors in the temperature with the wind to give you a wind chill reading.
The Winter Solstice
Grade Levels: Intermediate, Middle,
Secondary
This article explains the reason for the seasons.
PearsonAtSchool Products
Earth
Science Kit
Grade Levels: Intermediate,
Middle
This kit contains experiments, ranging from simple to
more complex, that explore topics like weathering agents, uncommon minerals,
river formation, and soil preservation.
Hands-On
Earth Science Activities for Grades K-8
Grade
Levels: Primary, Intermediate, Middle
This
book has over 165 inquiry activities covering the topics of Air, Water, Weather,
the Earth, Ecology, Above the Earth, and Beyond the Earth.
Hooked on Earth Science!
Grade
Levels: Intermediate, Middle, Secondary
One hundred reproducible puzzles for instant review, reinforcement, and fun in every area of Earth Science.
Weather
Whys
Grade Levels: Primary, Intermediate,
Middle
Chock full of facts, riddles, stuff to do, and things to remember,
this book answers loads of questions about weather and how it affects
the way we live.
Wild Weather
Kit
Grade Levels:
Intermediate, Middle
What actually causes meteorological "freaks of nature"?
Kids will find out as they simulate hurricanes, tornadoes, and lightning.
