Forecasting the Weather

Your Group's Task

• Divide up the weather instruments so that each group member has a minimum of two to make or record.

• Make sure that at least one of you is measuring or observing all the main elements that weather is composed of. (Don't forget clouds!)

• Choose the specific measuring tool that each of you will use.

• Decide where you will place this measuring tool. See Make Your Own Weather Instruments below.

• Print out and fill in this chart  In Acrobat Reader showing how you have divided up your task. Hand it in to your teacher.

• Individually, decide how you will collect and record your data. Then, fill in this planning chart. In Acrobat Reader Keep it to hand  in to your teacher. Then, collect the materials that you need to make your specific instruments. If you are having difficulty, speak with your group members or your teacher.

• Weather Instruments are to be made in class.
• Compare the instruments that you used with the instruments a meterologist uses. Use a Venn diagram or a chart to accomplish this task.

Interactive Weather Forecaster: Can you predict and forecast the weather?

Who forecasts the Weather?

Inside a weather office

Meet a Meterologist

Meet Crystal Wickers; a meteorologist in New Orleans, Louisiana

The tools a Meterologist Uses

Modern Forecasting Methods
Instruments a weather office uses
Networks a weather office uses (satellites, weather cams, etc.)
Satellite Image of North America

Weather Instruments

Glossary    Use your senses to forecast the weather

Make Your Own Weather Instruments

Make Your Own Weather Station 1       Make Your Own Weather Station 2

Measuring Air Temperature

Measuring Air Temperature        Make a Thermometer   Build a Thermometer 2

Measuring the Wind

Observing the Wind: 4 ways          Windy Things to Make       Make a Wind Vane     
                                   Build a Wind Gauge            Build a Wind Streamer                       
Build Your Own Anemometer     Anemometer2       Anemometer3                   
Wind Force Scale

Measuring Humidity

Measuring Humidity         Psychrometer        Building a Psychrometer         Build a Hygrometer

Measuring Precipitation

Measuring Precipitation

Measuring Air Pressure

Measuring: The Mercurial Barometer        How to make a Barometer        Make your own Barometer1    
Make your Own Barometer 2       Observing Pressure  Air Pressure Animations

Organizing your Results:

Print out and then use this chart to record your results or make your own.

Weather Home Page      

Task A: How do People Find out about the weather forescast?        Task B: What causes Weather?  
Task C: Specific Concepts and Forecasting Tools      

Task E. Reporting Your Results                    Assessment