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Weather Watchers
First Grade

• Created by
• Angie Allison
• Kennesaw State University
• ECE8814/01

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Table of Contents

• What is weather
• Different kinds of weather
• Who studies weather
• Weather tools
• Temperature
• Measure air temperature
• Wind
• Precipitation
• Clouds and rain
• Weather events
• Forecast
• Weather in September
• Our favorite weather
• Weather words
• Weather folklore
• GPS

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What is weather?

• It may be hot or cold outside.
• It may be sunny, cloudy, or rainy. All these
  words tell about weather.
• The weather is what the air outside is like.

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Different kinds of weather
When the air outside changes, the weather
changes. The weather may be hot one day and cool
the next.
One day may be cloudy and rainy. The next day may
be clear and sunny. One day may be very windy.
Another day may be calm.
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Who studies weather?

• A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and
  predicts the weather.
• Meteorologists use sophisticated equipment, like
  Doppler radar and supercomputers, but they also
  rely on old-fashioned sky watching.
• They observe sky conditions because clouds and
  wind can help tell how weather is changing.

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Weather Tools
Thermometer
Wind vane
Rain gauge
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Temperature

• The temperature is the measure of how hot or
  cold something is.
• Temperature is measured with a tool called a
  thermometer.

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Measure Air Temperature
Write Use a thermometer. Measure and record the
temperature each day. Write about the temperature
changes. Tell how the weather changes make the
temperature go up and down.
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Wind

• Moving air is called wind.
• Wind can push things.
• Sometimes the wind blows gently and sometimes it
  blows hard.

Click on the box to see video.
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Precipitation

• General name for water in any form falling from
  clouds. This includes rain, drizzle, hail, snow
  and sleet. Although, dew, frost and fog are not
  considered to be precipitation.

What kind of precipitation are we catching on our
tongues?
Hint
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Clouds and Rain

• Clouds are made up of many tiny drops of water.
  The drops may join and get heavier. When the
  drops get too heavy, they fall as rain.

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Weather Events

• Thunderstorm - A storm produced by a cumulonimbus
  cloud and always has lightning and thunder. Rain,
  hail and high winds may or may not occur.
• Tornado- It begins as a funnel cloud with
  spinning columns of air that drop down from a
  severe thunderstorm. When they reach the ground
  they become tornadoes.
• Hurricane- They are intense storms with swirling
  winds up to 150 miles per hour. Usually around
  300 miles across, they are 1,000 to 5,000 times
  larger than tornadoes.

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What is the forecast?

• The forecast is a prediction or guess of what
  the weather will be.
• Scientists look for
• patterns in the weather.
• They use computers to tell us what weather will
  happen.

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Weather in September

• What type of weather occurred most?
• What type occurred least?
• Were there more rainy days or windy days in
  September?
• How many days did it snow?

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Our Favorite Weather

• Can you read this pie graph?
• How many students like sunny weather?
• How many students like snowy weather?
• Which is the most favorite?
• Which weather do we like the least?
• Which types of weather are equal?

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Weather Words
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Weather Folklore
                     Rain, rain go away come
back another day.
                                                
                                                  
                                                 
If crows fly low, winds going to blow If crows
fly high, winds going to die.
                        Whether its cold or
whether its hot... We shall have weather,
whether or not! No weather is ill, if the wind
is still.                NEWS and
weatherthey travel together.
Click on the cloud to play weather games
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Georgia Performance Standards

• S1E1. Students will observe, measure, and
  communicate weather data to see patterns in
  weather and climate.
• a. Identify weather by observing types of
  weather and the characteristics of each type.
• b. Investigate weather by observing, measuring
  with simple weather instruments( thermometer,
  wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather
  data ( temperature, precipitation, sky
  conditions, and weather events).
• c. Correlate weather data to seasonal changes.
• M1D1. Students will create simple tables and
  graphs and interpret them.
• a. Interpret tally marks, picture graphs and bar
  graphs.
• b. Organize and record data using objects,
  pictures, tally marks, and picture graphs.