Station 1: What's The Matter with Air? (Plastic Cup, Cork, and Balloons)
Station 2: Heat Transfer - If It's Not One, It's Another (Plastic black-and-White Cans with Insulating Lids, 2 Thermometers, Aluminum Pie Pan, and Thread)
Station 3: Temperature: Hot or Not? (Fahrenheit/Celsius Thermometer and Balloons)
Station 4: Air Pressure - A Push or a Pull? (Two Similar Suction Cups, one with a hole) Extension 4: Atmosphere Power - A Crushing Blow (Glove for Lifting a Hot Can)
Station 5: Barometers - Working Under Pressure (Self-Sealing Bag, Plastic Jar, Wooden Skewer, Straws, Balloon, and Rubber Band)
Station 6: Wind - She's Quite a Gale (Compass, Party Streamer, and Beaufort Wind Speed Scale)
Station 7: Evaporation - Nature's Disappearing Act (Balance, Sponges, Hooks, and Dropper)
Station 8: Cloud in a Jar - Condensation is a Sensation! (Jar with Lid, Black Construction Paper, and Self-Sealing Bag)
Station 9: Observing Clouds - Looking into the Mist! (Cloud Chart and Rain Gauge)
Station 10: Humidity - Hey Dewed, It's All Relative! (Kitchen Sponge and 100-mL Graduated Cylinder)
Station 11: Dew Point - Squeezing Air...Just Dew It! (Plastic Cups, Foam Packaging Peanuts, Silver Can, and Thermometer)
Station 12: Psychrometers - Singing in the Rain (Sling Psychrometer Kit, Weather Watch Thermometer, Rain Gauge, Weather Watch Data Sheet, Anenometer, Wind Vane/Wind Measuring Tools, Cloud Chart, Sling Psychrometer, and Weather Resource Pages) |
These hands-on activities help your students understand basic weather concepts about processes in our atmosphere. Students learn how to use weather instruments to gather data for their own classroom weather station. Kit consists of a week's worth of activities, including 2 videotapes: Weather at 5:00 and The Hydrologic Cycle, materials for 12 workstations, and a complete teacher's guide./!\ WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Children under 8 yrs. can choke or suffocate on uninflated or broken balloons. Adult supervision required. Keep uninflated balloons from children. Discard broken balloons at once.

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