Weather

Fascinating and Beautiful Clouds!
A Guide to Beautiful Clouds
Clouds are more than a scientific subject or simply related to the weather, they have inspired us through the ages in art and literature, they are used as a metaphor for happiness, for misery and for dreaming. They can entertain us with their shapes. Clouds can be many contradictory things; mysterious, beautiful, comical, annoying, frightening and awe-inspiring. What can be a more peaceful pastime than cloud spotting, watching clouds drift across the sky, changing shapes! We will look at the...

Rain! Glorious Rain!
Rainy Weather
Rain rain go away, come back another day! Rainy weather, or the lack of it, impacts us all. Rain brings relief when it's dry, it brings chaos when it rains too much. It is essential to make things grow and live, but if it is polluted it can kill and destroy. Rain has the power to give life and to take life away. Different cultures over the world have different reactions to rainy weather. When it rains, how do you feel and what does it mean to you? Are you fed up, scared, happy? We complain w...

Hazardous Weather Quiz: Hiking or Camping in Bad Weather
Bad weather Questions and Answers
Most scouting organizations at some point go on a hike or a campout. Pitching a tent or cooking dinner is not the only thing to be concerned about while in the great outdoors. The weather is often unpredictable. When caught in a not so ideal situation, you want to be prepared and know what to do and what not to do for your safety and for the safety of your scout group. The questions below are some of the things you will learn in the Boy Scouts Hazardous Training Course. The course is mandato...

Tornadoes, Hurricanes, and Lightning Lesson
Weather Unit: Storms and Fronts Lesson
This is week 4 of a 4 week hands-on unit study on Meteorology and Weather. Create tornadoes in a bottle, form a hurricane in a mixing bowl, produce lightning and thunder using pie plates and ballooons, and more! My lessons are geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 hours and have 14 children between the ages of 1-13. Even if you're not meeting with a co-op, you can still use the...

Clouds and Precipitation Lesson
Weather Unit: Clouds & Precipitation Lesson (Week 3 of 4)
This is week 3 of a 4 week hands-on unit study on Meteorology and Weather. Make clouds in a bottle, create rain using the stove, build rain gauges, form and eat clouds, and more! My lessons are geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 hours and have 14 children between the ages of 1-13. Even if you're not meeting with a co-op, you can still use these fun lessons with your family o...

Weather Unit Presentations and Field Trips
Weather Unit Presentations, Recipes, and Field Trip Ideas
For the culminating activity for our 4 week hands-on unit on Meteorology and Weather the children presented art projects, lapbooks, and weather experiments they created or performed during the unit. We also had a weather-themed lunch after the children made their presentations. I have also included where we went for field trips during this unit. My lessons are geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We m...

Wind and Air Pressure Lesson
Weather Unit: Wind and Air Pressure Lesson Plan (Week 2 of 4)
This is week 2 of a 4 week hands-on unit study on Meteorology and Weather. Make weather vanes and barometers, act out high and low pressure, blow up a balloon and collapse a can using hot water, make and eat prevailing winds, and more! My lessons are geared toward 2nd-3rd grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 hours and have 14 children between the ages of 1-13. Even if you're not meeting with a co-o...