ESS.2.1.2: Use mathematics and computational thinking to summarize weather…

Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? Grades K–2 · partly supports this outcome

Is it sunny, windy or wet today, and how can we tell? Young scientists keep a class weather chart for two weeks, build wind socks to catch the wind and make a rain gauge from a bottle to measure the rain.

• Which way is the wind blowing? 40–45 min, plus 5 min on two or three other days

  Children make a paper-plate wind sock with crepe-paper streamers and take it into the schoolyard to see which way the wind blows and how strong it is. They find out that we can't see wind, but we can see what it does, and they sort days into calm, breezy and windy.

• How much rain fell? 40 min, plus 5 min a day for a week

  Teams build a rain gauge from a clear, straight-sided bottle with a ruler taped on, set it outside and measure the rain each day for a week. On a dry week they make a watering-can 'storm' instead, and test what happens when rain lands on grass, soil and pavement.

Printable practice for ESS.2.1.2

These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to ESS.2.1.2 is partial.

• Weather Detectives workbook included with the unit

  3 practice pages, 3 readings, 2 English-support pages, 1 word wall, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.

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