DISCUSS:
How do you know it’s winter where you live?
What changes do you notice?
DISCUSS:
Suppose you wanted to find a great spot to build a snow fort next December.
What kinds of data could you collect to find a place with great weather for snow fort building?
DISCUSS:
What’s the point of making predictions about the weather if we know that at least some of them will be wrong?
Thermometers (Fahrenheit) worksheet
Alternatively, you can print our Celsius version. |
15 copies |
What's the Weather Answer Key teacher-only resource | 1 copy |
What's the Weather Chart worksheet | 15 copies |
Crayons
We suggest each pair of students use one red crayon and one blue crayon, but other colors can also work.
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30 crayons
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We suggest students work in pairs. Homeschool students can work on their own.
In this lesson, we discuss both the Celsius scale and Fahrenheit scale for measuring temperature. We mainly focus on Fahrenheit because students in the United States are more familiar with this temperature scale. We have Celsius worksheets available for the activity if you would like to use that temperature scale instead.
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Why is the sky blue?
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Why do we call them doughnuts?
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Could a turtle live outside its shell?