You may recall that I taught at both private and public schools. Invariably one member of the staff was passionate about weather studies. For years and years I wrote grants to fund student projects. Along the way, we funded weather stations, too. If you buy an electronic system, buy a new one. I have had terrific luck at Good Will and eBay EXCEPT with electronics. Compare reviews and plan on making a new weather station a family Christmas present.
Let’s look at resources for precipitation. Yes, I include many references to GLOBE. If you’re working with want to do a unit study. Start with the etraining unit before attempting any of the protocols. Make your own tools. The fancy rain gauges specified by GLOBE are expensive. Put together a lapbook about Weather and include Clouds and Precipitation activities.
1. Here are GLOBE’s Precipitation protocols. Here is the Precipitation: Rainfall eTraining and Precipitation: Snowfall eTraining. Here are the precipitation protocols.
2. Make a rain gauge or use this example.
3. Make a snowboard to measure snow depth with these protocols.
4. Here is a video from NOAA, How to Measure Rainfall.
5. The National Weather Service has these instructions (and photos) explaining how to measure snowfall.
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