2. By: Lynn Tomlin First Grade 1

3. Table of Contents  Introduction…………………….1 Introduction…………………….  Table of Contents,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 2  What is Weather?................... 3 What is Weather?................... What is Weather?...................  Types of Weather…………….. 4 Types of Weather…………….. Types of Weather……………..  What is Precipitation?..............5 What is Precipitation?.............. What is Precipitation?..............  Weather and the Sun………… 6 Weather and the Sun………… Weather and the Sun…………  Meteorologists………………… 7 Meteorologists…………………  Weather Instruments…………. 8 Weather Instruments…………. Weather Instruments…………. –Wind Socks –Rain Gauges –Anemometers –Thermometers –Barometers  Weather Graphs………………...9 Weather Graphs………………... Weather Graphs………………...  Weather Watch Instruments….10 Weather Watch Instruments…. Weather Watch Instruments….  Weather Song………………….11 Weather Song…………………. Weather Song………………….  More Fun With Weather ……...12 More Fun With Weather ……... More Fun With Weather ……... Georgia Performance Standards: Earth Science S1E1 a.,b Data Analysis and Probability M1D1a Data Analysis and Probability M1D1a Process Skills M1P4,5 Process Skills M1P4,5 2

4. Weather What is weather? What is weather? Weather is whatever is happening in the air at particular time and place. 3

5. Types of Weather There are many types of weather. There are many types of weather. Sunny Snowy Rainy What kind of weather are you having today? Windy Cloudy 4

6. Precipitation What is precipitation? What is precipitation? Precipitation is water that falls from clouds. This water may fall as: Snow Rain Sleet Drizzle Hail 5

7. Weather and the Sun SUN SnowyRainyWindyCloudyDrizzleSleetHail All of our weather comes from the sun. 6

8. Meteorologists Meteorologists are people who study the weather.They use many special tools, or instruments to help them: Wind Socks Rain Gauges Anemometers Thermometers Barometers 7

9. Rain Gauges Rain Gauges Measure rainfall Anemometers Measure wind speed Thermometers Measure air temperature Wind Socks Measure wind direction Barometers Measure how high or low the air pressure is 8

10. Weather Graphs Meteorologists use their weather instruments to collect Meteorologists use their weather instruments to collect information, or data and put them into graphs like these: information, or data and put them into graphs like these: Source: National Weather Service Forecast Office Peachtree City, Georgia 30269 http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/ 9

11. See if you can answer the riddles! You may want to go back and look at the weather instruments on slide 8 to help you! 10

12. Try singing the weather song to the tune of “Bingo!” 11

13. More Fun with Weather More Fun with Weather You can visit the following websites for lessons and experiments to do at home or at school: You can visit the following websites for lessons and experiments to do at home or at school: http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/index.html http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/index.htmlhttp://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/index.html http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/ http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/ 12