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Posted by yestheyareallmine in Homeschooling, Tuesday Teaching Tip. Tagged: Homeschooling (Unschooling), science project, teaching tip, unschooling, weather experiment. 5 Comments
I am joining in with Helpful Homemaker on a great idea that she has started- Tuesday’s Teaching Tip. What tips and tricks do you use while homeschooling? It can be arts and crafts, getting kids interested in a subject, teaching a young one to read, experiments or anything at all that you want to share.
Here is my teaching tip for Tuesday:
Checking up on the meteorologist. I went to www.weather.com and looked at our 10 day forecast. You can click on the day and see what the weather is going to be that day. Here is an example from a random town for Wednesday’s weather:
Today Tue, Feb 12 Wed, Feb 13 Thu, Feb 14 Fri, Feb 15 Sat, Feb 16 Sun, Feb 17 Mon, Feb 18 Tue, Feb 19 Wed, Feb 20
| 6am |
49°F |
Feels Like
44°F |
|
| 9am |
46°F |
Feels Like
40°F |
|
| 12pm |
46°F |
Feels Like
40°F |
|
| 3pm |
49°F |
Feels Like
43°F |
|
| 6pm |
44°F |
Feels Like
37°F |
|
| 9pm |
37°F |
Feels Like
29°F |
|
| Day |
Night |
AM Showers |
High
49°FPrecip
60% |
| Wind: |
NW 15 mph |
| Max. Humidity: |
64% |
| UV Index: |
4 Moderate |
|
| Sunrise: |
7:23 AM ET |
| Avg. High: |
57°F |
| Record High: |
76°F (1949) |
|
Partly Cloudy |
Overnight Low
27°FPrecip
10% |
| Wind: |
NNW 7 mph |
| Max. Humidity: |
63% |
| |
|
| |
| Sunset: |
6:19 PM ET |
| Avg. Low: |
34°F |
| Record Low: |
11°F (1981) |
|
Now what we do is each of my older three has a notebook with looseleaf paper and we will record the actual temps outside at the times indicated on the forecast and we will see just how right or wrong the meteorologists were on their “predictions”. We will also record cloud cover, sunshine, precipitation and such. Anything the forecast shows or is different from the forecast. At the end of the week we will gather all of our data and chart it. The kids have a great time and learn a lot about the weather, graphs, charts and notetaking to name a few.
I hope you have as much fun with this as we are having!
For more teaching tips head over to The Helpful Homemaker.
All for His glory,
~Rhen
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Posted by Julie on February 12, 2008 at 10:47 am
This is a timely tip for us, as ds2 will be studying weather and forecasting in science starting next week. I will definitely use your ideas and links. Thanks! Julie
Posted by Daisy on February 12, 2008 at 3:05 pm
This is a terrific idea. We are going to plan on doing this for the month of March. We live in SoCal and it is about the only month that is anything but boring sunshine. LOL. Thanks for the idea!
Posted by donna (mom24boyz) on February 12, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for joining in, what a coooooool tip. I never would have thought of charting the weather and see if they got it right
I will definately be implementing this idea!
Posted by Chas on February 12, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Cool… Rhen, we post our prediction for the weather each day, and we check the net for an accurate one. We bought a large outdoor gauge to help us in telling the temps around our house… fun.
Thanks!
Love,
Chas
Posted by Wendy on February 14, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Great idea, thanks! We’ve been doing a little weather learning here too, so this is really timely for me. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks.