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Activity: Build Your Own Weather Station

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Numeracy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Critical & Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum General CapTability: Critical & Creative Thinking

 

TeacherNotes to Teachers

These activities are designed to be relatively open ended. Although the procedures seem to be set, they are not. Some dimensions have been given and others have been purposely omitted. For example, sizes of screws, nuts and bolts must be determined by students during the planning stage of their project. Some materials have alternates and some steps have been shortened to give students more latitude in their designs. Remember, the object is to use these instructions as general guidelines, and for students to develop their own designs.

 

1. Go to the following website to learn to design and construct a rain gauge, barometer, anemometer, psychrometer, and wind vane. The materials used are very basic and easy to use. The measurements are American and will need conversion.

Build Your Own Weather Station

2. You can either create and construct these designs yourself or as a team.

 

Did You Know?

The mercury barometer is the oldest type of barometer was invented by the Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli in 1643.


Barometer


Read this article from National Geographic to find out the Barometer.

National Geographic



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Aboriginal Meteorologists - What can we learn from this extensive Indigenous knowledge?

Middle Middle Secondary Secondary

Indigenous IconAustralian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

ICT Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

 

1. The Bureau of Meteorology's Indigenous Weather Knowledge site was launched in 2002 as a joint partnership between the Bureau, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and Monash University's Centre for Indigenous Studies.

Indigenous Weather Calendar

The site is a formal recognition of traditional weather and climate knowledge that has been developed and passed down through countless generations by Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Aboriginal Meteorologists were in place thousands of years ago....

"A significant amount of the weather culture of the Aboriginals of central and northern Australia has survived, and this provides us with a path into the way indigenous Australians view the weather and climate of Australia.

This path largely consists of an intimate knowledge of plant and animal cycles, and contains details of the intricate connections between these, which the Aboriginal people have observed over thousands of years and passed down from generation to generation.

This represents a precious and irreplaceable heritage, the value of which is being increasingly recognised, considered and appreciated by all Australians."

(Source: Bureau of Meteorology)

2. You are to investigate this site including: 

3. Using Powtoon, an online software tool that allows you to create animated video explainers, create a video showing the wealth of knowledge of Indigenous Australian Meteorologist!

Powtoon

 


Websites, Games & Apps

NASA - Wild Weather Adventure

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LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 

ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT



Wild Weather Adventure
Weather WizKids - Word Search

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LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 

ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT



Word Search
Trivia Questions - Meteorology

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LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 

ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT

Trivial
The Weather Channel - Kids Interactive Games
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LiteracyAustralian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 

ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT

Kids Channel games

 

 


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