Starting on Monday, December 3rd the 7th grade will begin a 13-week study of Weather and Water and it’s just in time for some interesting weather.
On Friday, December 21st, fall ends and winter begins. It’s some of the most severe and interesting weather of the whole year and it aligns with our weather unit really well.
This coming week, I will be mounting a weather station on the roof near our classroom so we can use super-local data in our studies. The weather station will provide temperature, humidity, windspeed, wind direction and rainfall.
We will be tracking all this data in our science notebooks. Later, we will analyze the data to support our understanding of seasons.
Now, if we can avoid a ridiculous number of snow days this winter, we’ll be able to make great progress in this unit. I know a lot of student appreciate snow days, but last year we had so many, we were in school until the very end of June - ugh.
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