White City does science! Six, seventh, and eighth graders are doing a unit on weather for science. To be specific, this project falls under the topic of “Weather Station Learning.” To explore this area, the students are making rain gauges in Mrs. Newey's class. Mrs. Newey is a 6-7 ELA and Science teacher. The students are making the gauges out of pop bottles, water, and tape. The rain gauges tell them how many inches of rain they have received. They started a little over 2 weeks ago, and the rain gauges have already been set outside to be used. The gauges work the best in an open area, so that all the rain can get into the rain gauges. The students will know how many inches of water they received overnight. Recent disaster has set the class back, but science is a resilient thing. ”Heavy winds blew over the class-made rain gauges, so we had to use the store-bought one for today's assignment,” Ms. Newey said. The students are doing other weather measurements too. A recent email informs us that the barometric pressure rose .13% in one day. This kind of pressure is an indicator of incoming bad weather. Our classes are using such indicators to make weather forecasts. The 8th graders predict “warm and dry weather.” 6th and 7th graders think the weather will be “rainy later in the week.” The students also used a weather vane to check the direction of the wind.
Catch the Rain
October 9, 2023