How it works?
Students at building their own weather vane.
How does the weather affect our daily activities? How would you design a weather station?
Students engineered and built their own functioning weather vanes to track wind direction.
S1E1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate weather data to identify weather patterns.
c. Plan and carry out investigations on current weather conditions by observing, measuring with simple weather instruments (thermometer, wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) in a periodic journal, on a calendar, and graphically.
I can observe and measure weather conditions
I can create a tool to help me see the direction of the wind.
Make Your Own!