Hands on Science

Grade 2

Standard 3: Students will have an understanding of the environment

Objective 2: Observe and describe weather

~observe and describe patterns of change in weather

I will use the thermometer probe and kidsperation

We will begin this project in the fall, when the weather is likely to have a noticeable change. We will “create a storm” where the children use a serious of hand motions to create the sounds of a storm, such as wind, light rain, heavy rain, and thunder. We will discuss how weather can change in an area, and what weather they have seen in their lives. The students will then keep a class weather journal for two weeks, observing the temperature changes using the thermometer probe, as well as observing what the clouds and winds are doing. We will collect the data and plot it on a graph using kidsperation, making it look like a weather report they might see on TV. We could make predictions using the trends we see, and past knowledge we have of weather from last year. We will see how this compares to the previous years for the same area. We will also compare it to other areas of the country and the world.

This activity will occur both inside the classroom and outside, observing the weather and discussing climate.