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Weather
Charts
1. Read the
story "Cloudy W/ A Chance of Meatballs" with your students.
2. Have your
students make observations about what they have heard or read regarding
the weather in the book.
3. Make comparisons
to the weather within your city. (do you have storms? very hot days?
muggy days? etc)
4. Create a
wall graph or excel chart to log the temperatures in your city for
ONE WEEK (Monday to Friday)
5. Your class
will need to convert these temperatures into celcius.
(Deduct 32, then multiply by 5, then divide by 9)
6. Post your
results to the project form.
7. Visit the
results form during the project to compare your temperatures with
other posted temperatures from participating classrooms.
8. Contact other
participating classrooms and invite them to share their temperatures
with you throughout the year.
This project is now over
Final Results in Excel Format -- Click HERE
1,197 Students Involved
118 Classrooms
WORKSHEETS
Weather Tracker (older grades)
Weather Tracker (Pre - 2)
The following worksheets were found at
Time For Kids:
Sunny Days, Rainy Days
What's The Weather?
Tracking Weather
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