Mystery Doug is a FREE weekly video series where students ask questions. The videos are short, approximately five minutes long. Mystery Doug inspires students to ask questions and investigate. Some videos provide activity extensions. Students are also encouraged to submit questions.

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 slide show, students learn about various instruments that can be used to measure the weather. Some examples are the thermometer, hygrometer, anemometer, barometer, rain gauge and the wind vane.

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 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 is the fourth lesson on weather in a unit called Weather Trackers (http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/unitplan/11468.htm). This lesson primarily deals with types of tools that scientists use to study weather. Students have the opportunity to do a fun cooperative learning activity that will review other skills such as pictorial graphing. Prior to the activity, students will read What Will the Weather Be Like Today? by Paul Rogers.

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.

In this activity, students build a model anemometer which will be used to measure wind speed in Part 2 of the lesson.