TAKE DAILY WEATHER OBSERVATIONS

Keep a record of local weather using your own instruments, starting with temperature. Read the values at the same time each day.

MEASURE DAILY RAINFALL

Set up your own rain gauge and measure and record rain that has fallen in each 24 hour period.

WATCH THE WEATHER CHANNEL REGULARLY

Keep notes on what you are learning. Write to the Weather Channel for their kids materials.

LOOK UP LOCAL AND NATIONAL CLIMATE DATA WITH WEATHER EXTREMES

Go to the local newspaper of library for weather records, and go to the Internet (weather.com or NOAA.com) for climatic data. Practice finding new sites and build a list, noting the types of information to be found on the site.

MAKE SINGLE STATION FORECASTS

Practice making your own forecasts for tomorrow and keep records of success and failures. It isn't easy but it is fun trying.

MAKE A CLOUD CHAMBER

Produce a cloud in a bottle.

MEASUREMENTS

Look at books on weather and learn how temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind are measured on the ground and aloft. Make simple instruments yourself.

DESCRIBE THE PRECIPITATION LADDER

Study the precipitation ladder on Cloudman's Ups and Downs of Weather. Be able to tell the story of the precipitation process from the beginning to the end in some detail, built around the Ladder. Summarize by describing the various forms of liquid and frozen precipitation, with diagrams, describing the conditions of formation.

DESCRIBE THE WATER CYCLE

Study the water cycle and be able to describe the process in as much detail as possible.

ECOLOGY

Ecology is a study of how organisms interact with other living things and with non-living things such as sunlight, air, water, and soil. An ecosystem, such as the sky, is a community of living and non-living things that interact to form a stable system. Research how the sky is important in the web of life. Describe the sky in terms of habitat. What is its structure and who makes it their home?

How do waste/pollutants move through the sky and how do they affect weather?