Weather Here, Weather There

Our next SBBB project in math and science is focused on weather and comparing trends in 2 different cities across the United States. We began this week by discussing important weather tools that tell us information about our weather. Below is a picture of our anchor chart displaying these tools.

Students then were able to investigate our local weather using a simple weather station. Some classes put these stations together for us for all classes to use. Students were then able to measure air temperature, wind speed, wind direction and amount of rain fall.

Over the next 6 days, students will be collecting data about the weather in 2 different cities. Students were allowed to choose 2 cities, of their choice, and were given charts to record their data. They will be collecting the following information about each of their cities, high and low temperature, wind direction, and chance of precipitation. After 6 days, students will then create a presentation in which they will graph their data to find trends, compare the weather in their 2 cities, and finally write a reflection about what they observed. Exemplar projects will be chosen and displayed on our next standards based bulletin board on January 27th.