Hey there! I just came in from outside, and wow, it’s super sunny! Today, we’re going to learn about weather. Do you know what weather is? It’s what’s happening outside right now. Let’s find out more about it!
Weather can be lots of things. Sometimes the sky is sunny with no clouds. Other times, it might be cloudy, rainy, or even snowy. It can also be windy, hot, or cold. Today, we’ll focus on sunny, rainy, cloudy, and snowy weather.
Let’s make a weather chart! This chart helps us see how many days are sunny, rainy, cloudy, or snowy. Each day, we look outside and decide what the weather is. Then, we color in a box on the chart for that day. After a month, we’ll see which type of weather happened the most!
Look at our weather chart! We had five sunny days, two rainy days, two snowy days, and three cloudy days. If we count all the days, we have 12 days of different weather!
Now, let’s learn about a thermometer. A thermometer is a tool that tells us how hot or cold it is. When you go outside, you might feel it’s hot or cold. But a thermometer gives us the exact temperature.
In America, we use degrees Fahrenheit to measure temperature. If it’s 80 degrees, it’s warm. If it’s 20 degrees, it’s cold. Room temperature, which feels just right, is around 70 degrees.
On a hot summer day, it can be 100 degrees or more! On a cold winter day, it might be 32 degrees, which is when it can snow, or even 0 degrees, which is really cold!
Let’s review! Weather is what the air and sky are doing right now. Temperature tells us how hot or cold it is. A thermometer measures the temperature in degrees. There are many types of weather, like tornadoes and hurricanes, but common ones are snow, clouds, rain, and sunny days.
Thanks for learning about weather with me! Remember, you can always look out the window to see what the weather is doing today. Have fun exploring!
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Weather Observation Walk: Take a walk outside with an adult and observe the weather. Is it sunny, cloudy, rainy, or snowy? Draw a picture of what you see and write a sentence about how it feels. For example, “Today is sunny, and it feels warm.” Share your drawing and sentence with your class or family.
Make Your Own Thermometer: Create a simple thermometer using a clear plastic bottle, water, rubbing alcohol, and a straw. With the help of an adult, fill the bottle halfway with equal parts water and rubbing alcohol, then insert the straw without letting it touch the bottom. Seal the neck of the bottle with modeling clay. Place your thermometer in different spots around your home and observe how the liquid rises or falls. Discuss why you think the liquid changes levels in different places.
Weather Journal: Start a weather journal for a week. Each day, write down the weather and draw a picture. Use a thermometer to record the temperature if you have one. At the end of the week, look at your journal and see if you can find any patterns. Did you have more sunny days or rainy days? Was it warmer at the beginning or the end of the week?
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I just came in from outside, and boy, is it sunny out there! Now that we’re in the lab, let’s talk about weather. What is weather, and what are the different types of weather? Weather is basically what’s going on outside right now. What is the sky doing? Is it sunny with no clouds? Is it cloudy? Maybe it’s rainy—that’s a lot of rain—or it could even be snowy. There are lots of other different types of weather too. It can be windy, and we can talk about it being hot and cold, but these are some of the four that we’re going to focus on today.
Let’s step out of the lab for a minute. Tell me, what is the sky doing right now? I would say it’s partly cloudy.
What we have here is a simple weather chart. You can see we have different types of weather across the bottom: sunny days, rainy days, cloudy days, and snowy days. Over here, we have numbers going up the side that tell us how many days it was either sunny, rainy, cloudy, or snowy. Over the next couple of days, we will look outside and decide which one we want to mark it as, and then color in one box to represent each day. After a month or so, we’ll have a full chart to show us how many days it’s been sunny, rainy, cloudy, or snowy.
Let’s revisit the weather chart. You can see that overall, the most days were sunny, with one, two, three, four, five sunny days. The least amount of days is both rainy and snowy, with one, two days each, and then three days of cloudy weather.
How many days overall did we record on our chart? If you count up all the days, you have to include all the boxes. So we have one, two, three, four, five sunny days plus six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve days. So we had 12 days that had all different types of weather. This weather chart tells us a lot of different information about the various kinds of weather that we’ve had in our area.
This is a thermometer. A thermometer is a tool that scientists use to measure the temperature to see how hot or cold something is. You might have noticed when you walk outside, you can feel it on your skin. You might say, “Wow, it’s really cold,” or you might go out and say, “Wow, it’s really hot.”
Now, when you’re a scientist, you want to be more specific. You don’t want to just say something is hot or cold; you want to say how hot or cold it is. So you can use a thermometer like this one. In America, we measure in degrees Fahrenheit, which we denote with an “F.” So you might have heard that it’s going to be 80 degrees outside, which means it’s pretty warm, or you might have heard that it’s going to be 20 degrees outside, which is pretty cold.
In the room you’re in right now, if you’re aware, you know it’s not too hot and not too cold; it’s probably around 70 degrees. We call this room temperature, and it feels comfortable. You might have a t-shirt on, maybe shorts, and you’re pretty comfortable where you are.
On a hot summer day, depending on where you live, maybe in Texas or Mexico, a hot summer day might get all the way up to 100 or even 110 degrees—that’s really hot! On a cold winter day in places farther up north, like Canada or Alaska, it might get all the way down to 32 degrees, which is when we start to see snow and freezing rain, and water turns to ice, or even all the way down to zero degrees, which is really cold.
We’ve learned a lot of new vocabulary in today’s lesson, so let’s review that before we go. Weather is what the air and sky are doing right now, and you can look out the window to tell what the weather is doing. The next is temperature, which tells us how hot or cold something is. You can open your window, stick your arm out, and you can tell if it’s hot or cold outside.
Then we have a thermometer, which is a device used to measure exactly how hot or cold something is, usually in degrees, either Celsius or Fahrenheit. There are all kinds of different types of weather out there—tornadoes, hurricanes, and storms of all sorts—but some of the more common types of weather are snow, clouds, rain, and my all-time favorite, sunny weather.
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