In this lesson, students learn how a thermometer works and how it measures the temperature. Students will practice reading the thermometer in the classroom and outdoors, and then draw thermometers to display the recorded temperatures.

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 2nd Grade Science.

In this lesson, students will explore temperature and weather in their local community and in Europe. Students will also conduct experiments and make their own barometers.

In this lesson, students will tack barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The clouds will record daily readings in these areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.

In this lesson, students investigate how the weather changes from day to day.

In this lesson, students study the local weather over a 2 week period and collect data. They will then create bar and line graphs from the collected qualitative and quantitative data.

In this activity, students will make a classroom weather report chart and record data for four weeks. Students will measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and wind direction for one month, then chart and graph the data.

In this short unit, students observe, discuss, and investigate the concept of weather. First, students participate in a class discussion centered around the question, "It is ___ degrees outside. What should I wear?" Next, students investigate temperature, sunlight, and snow with various experiments. Finally, students compare theri weather with weather in a different location.

This lesson is the eighth lesson in the unit Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). The activities in this lesson serve as a comprehensive review for the unit on weather. Students review weather concepts through interactive games, role-play and experiments.

Students will graph the weather conditions throughout the week.  Each day they will also record a short video, describing the weather for that day.

In this activity, students learn about wind and collect wind speed data over a five-day period.