HIT: weather station resources

["Rebekah Olson, LMS" <rolson@wfmail.sodus.k12.ny.us>]

 Here are the resources people suggested for the teacher who wanted to
make a weather station with her 3rd grade class:

Janice Van Cleave's Weather forecasting book
Weather forecasting     Gibbons

Simple Weather Experiments With Everyday Materials by Muriel Mandell.
Has chapter called "Building a weather station" includes keeping
records, a straw
thermometer, reading a barometer, bottle barometer, weather vane, cup
anemometer, etc.

http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-331.html
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/weatherstation/index.html

http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~borgert/Weather/project-index.html
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/cap/glr-ae/lplan/augsep97.htm
http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/basics/measurements.htm
http://disney.go.com/educational/cyberlesson_march.html
http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weatherstation.html
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/Students_Teachers/learnact.htm


The Kid's Book of Weather Forecasting : Build a Weather Station, 'Read
the Sky' & Make Predictions!by Mark Breen

Dr. Fred's Weather Watch: Create and Run Your Own Weather Station
by Alfred B. Bortz, J. Marshall Shepherd, Fred Bortz

Funpax: Weather Station by Deni Bown

WEATHER: SCIENCE ACTION BOOK: Build Your Own Weather Station and
Discover the Wonders of Meteorology by Molly Perham

The Ben Franklin Book of Easy Incredible Experiments-Activities,
Projects and Science
Fun. Edited by Lisa Jo Rudy; John Wiley and Sons, 1995.

Make it Work Weather by Andrew Haslam. World Book, 1997 -and-
The Kids' Book of Weather Forecasting by Mark Breen, Williamson, 2000.

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/activities/weatherstation/index.html
Also helpful for the teacher -
resources at www.weather.com

Thanks to the people who replied!

Becky Olson, LMS
Sodus Primary School
PO Box 220, Sodus, NY 14551
rolson@wfmail.sodus.k12.ny.us

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