Using Weather Instruments
Use weather instruments to measure and record weather data: thermometers for temperature in °C, rain gauges for rainfall, wind vanes for direction, and anemometers for wind speed — and keep a weather diary over time
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Set out your lesson
Read a thermometer model and plan an honest weather diary.
Ask for an example of one prerequisite idea; revisit if needed. Historical graph coverage does not establish this learner’s readiness.
Use instrument cards. A real outdoor diary needs safe adult-placed instruments; avoid mercury thermometers, storms and climbing. The model is not today’s weather.
Use supplied stage sheets on screen or scrap paper; keep adult keys separate.
Use the fictional scenarios. Passing is allowed. Do not ask for private money amounts, account details, family conflict, identity or health information. Keep only minimal local learning notes.
Supplied data are explicitly practice data, not observations. Record only what is actually attempted; absent equipment, consent, partner or repeated observations means that part remains pending.
Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.
Teaching limits and safe use
These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.
Scale reading is modeled; a several-day diary and patterns remain pending until observed.
Use the fictional scenarios. Passing is allowed. Do not ask for private money amounts, account details, family conflict, identity or health information. Keep only minimal local learning notes.
Supplied data are explicitly practice data, not observations. Record only what is actually attempted; absent equipment, consent, partner or repeated observations means that part remains pending.
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Read a thermometer model and plan an honest weather diary.
Read a thermometer model and plan an honest weather diary.
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Check understanding
- Name at least three weather instruments and explain what each measures
- Read a thermometer and record the temperature in degrees Celsius
- Record weather data in a table or diary over several days
“If your child had a thermometer, rain gauge, and wind vane at school, could they take daily readings, record them in a table, and spot patterns over a week or month?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Weather & Climate
- Age range
- Ages 7–9