It was pouring all day today so we decided to do a weather unit study. What a great day to do this on since we could actually see some of the things we were talking about!
First I did a search for unit studies. I found a great one that was perfect for a one day subject study: http://www.homeschoollearning.com/units/unit_09-17-01.shtml
We looked up weather vocabulary words:
Flood Plain, Downdraft, Occluded Front
Anemometer, Whirlwind, Psychrometer
Wind Shear, Virga, Microburst
Cirriform, Katabatic Wind, Thermograph
Ball Lightning, Gully Washer, Isotherm
We talked about tornadoes and other weather. I had a few weather books so we read them. We did 3 experiments I found on this site: http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-experiments.htm . We made a bottle tornado, thunder, learned about rain gauges and how to use them, and learned about rainbows by a color experiment (http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-rainbow-colors.htm). Unfortunately I didn’t get pictures of the color experiment.
The Bottle Tornado (http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-tornado-bottle.htm)
The Rain Gauge (http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-rain-gauge.htm) We had almost 3 inches of rain in less than 24 hrs!!
