5/21/09 - Weather - 5th Grade -

Today we are going to look at weather.

Let's start with this activity about weather patterns:

http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm


Once we have some knowledge about weather let's check out this activity:http://www.scholastic.com/kids/weather/

We can also check out the Weather Channel for Kids Website:
http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/

With this activity we will try to cover the 2nd national standard listed below:
National Science Standards
Investigation and Experimentation
Earth Sciences
Grade 5:
1. Water moves in the air from one place to another in the form of clouds or fog, which are tiny droplets of water or ice, and falls to the Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
2. How to use weather maps and weather forecasts to predict local weather, and that prediction depends on many changing variables.