#07.01 WEATHER CONCEPTS VOICE ACTIVITY FREE#

Beginning in upper elementary grades and continuing through high school, students can build upon weather science concepts to explore climate on both local and global levels. Question: How do living things adapt to the different seasons? Note: For more STEM lessons and science activities related to specific seasons, see 19 Fall Science Activities, Winter Science Projects, Lessons, and STEM Activities, and 26 Science Experiments for Spring.Īs students learn about weather and what causes weather patterns and changes, they also make connections to seasons and the water cycle. As they create 'weather report cards' for the seasons, they will analyze how weather conditions change between seasons. In the Birthday Season Weather Report lesson, students identify patterns and changes that go along with the four seasons. Question: Why are the seasons different in the Northern versus Southern hemisphere? Doing this activity, students will be able to correlate the tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun to how cold or warm it is on Earth and, as a result, which season it is. In the Seasonal Science: The Reasons for the Seasons activity, students do a hands-on experiment with a flashlight, a box, and paper to simulate how the tilt of the Earth affects the angle at which light from the Sun reaches the Earth. Video Lessons are self-paced and guide students through background information, a hands-on activity, and reflection. After talking about lightning in the context of static electricity and Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment, students build a simple electroscope, a device that can detect electrical charges, and use it to investigate how well different materials build up electrical charges. In the What Causes Lightning? video lesson, students learn about static electricity, and the triboelectric effect. Weather Stations and Weather Forecasts: Can You Do It Yourself? Lesson Plans and Activities to Teach About Weather Classroom Weather Station Activities are simplified explorations that can be used in the classroom or in informal learning environments. Lesson Plans offer NGSS alignment, contain background materials to boost teacher confidence, even in areas that may be new to them, and include supplemental resources like worksheets, videos, discussion questions, and assessment materials. Note: Science Buddies Lesson Plans contain materials to support educators leading hands-on STEM learning with students.

To make it easy to locate materials for teaching a specific weather topic, the lessons below have been grouped as follows:

#07.01 WEATHER CONCEPTS VOICE ACTIVITY FREE#

The free STEM lessons and activities below cover the relationship between the Sun and temperatures on Earth how the water cycle creates patterns of precipitation how tools like thermometers, barometers, and anemometers work to measure weather variables how meteorologists make predictions about (or forecast) the weather how weather patterns are related to seasons and the tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun how understanding weather patterns is important for the development of alternative energy solutions and more. With simple tools, they can take measurements, gather and record data, and then analyze their data to make connections and draw conclusions. As they continue to learn about weather science, students move from qualitative to quantitative observations. Evidence of 'weather' can be felt in the air (do you need a jacket today?), observed in how a kite flies or how the trees move (is it windy?), or seen in the form of rain drops, snowflakes, or fog. Many elements of weather are easily observable by students of all ages, which makes teaching introductory weather concepts accessible to even the youngest of students. Weather science appears at various points in the K-12 science curriculum.

07.01 weather concepts voice activity