10 Fun Weather Activities for Elementary Students
Looking for some fun and educational weather activities to do with your elementary students? You’ve come to the right place! In this blog post, you’ll find 10 different activities that will help teach your students about the weather. From making rain clouds to tracking the weather, these activities are sure to keep your students engaged and learning!
Start Your Weather Activities With A Game In Activity #1 – Play a Weather Vocabulary Game
There are a variety of games and activities teachers can use in the classroom to help students learn about weather words and their definitions.
For example, play a game where students take turns guessing the weather word based on its description. Or, split students into teams and have them come up with sentences using as many weather vocabulary words as they can in two minutes.
Charades is another favorite vocabulary game. Try it with weather words. One student acts out a weather term while the rest of the class tries to guess what it is. There are lots of ways to gamify vocabulary words – just pick one and have fun!
Get Crafty With Weather Activity #2 – Make A Rain Cloud
Making a rain cloud is a weather activity that’s always a hit. It’s an easy activity your students will love. To make the rain cloud, you’ll need a clear bowl or cup, some shaving cream, water, and food coloring.
Once you’ve got the materials gathered, pour the water into the cup and add shaving cream on top until it resembles a rain cloud. Then, add drops of food coloring onto the cloud until the food coloring starts seeping through the shaving cream. Explain how a cloud collects water droplets until it can’t absorb any more moisture. Then, it rains.
Continue Your Weather Activities With Activity #3 – Create a Weather Tools Lapbook
Weather tools help meteorologists measure and predict the weather. This weather toolkit is a great way to learn more about weather tools and their uses.
Students cut out pictures and definitions of different tools meteorologists use. Then, they add each tool to their own weather toolkit in this fun craftivity.
Read And Learn With Weather Activity #4 – Explore Weather, Clouds, and the Water Cycle With Mini-Books
Another fun way to learn about weather is by creating mini-books. Mini-books are simply small, easy-to-make books that students can use to explore a topic. They’re perfect for introducing topics, organizing student learning, and keeping kids engaged.
These booklets pair kid-friendly chunks of informational text with activity pages that break down the big topics into manageable sections. They focus on the key concepts kids need to understand. These mini-books explain the basics of weather, the water cycle, and clouds!
Get Hands-On With Weather Activity #5 – Build an Anemometer
An anemometer is a device used to measure wind speed. It usually consists of four or more cups attached to a rotating rod. As the wind blows, it causes the cups to rotate around the rod. The faster the wind blows, the quicker the cups will rotate.
Building an anemometer is a great way for students to learn about how wind speed is measured. It’s also a fun project that can be completed with easy-to-find materials!
Simplify The Water Cycle With Weather Activity #6 – Demonstrate the Water Cycle in a Baggie
Making the water cycle in a plastic baggie is a fun way to learn about the water cycle. Students can see how water changes form as it goes through the different stages of the water cycle by creating a model of the water cycle using a plastic baggie, water, food coloring, a permanent marker, and a sunny window.
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Collect Data With Weather Activity #7 – Record The Weather with a Weather Log
Kids can track the weather by recording the type of weather, the temperature, the amount of precipitation, and the wind speed on a weather log.
Logging the weather is a great way for kids to learn about the weather and see how it changes over time. It’s also a great way for kids to get familiar with the weather symbols that they’ll see when they look at weather forecasts.
Try Being A Meteorologist With Weather Activity #8 – Make a Weather Forecast Poster
Making a weather forecast poster is a fun way for students to practice using weather terms and symbols. Your students can make a weather forecast poster by looking up the weather forecast and then creating a poster to show the expected weather. They can use symbols and illustrations to help show what the weather will be like.
Have them make forecasts for different areas around the world and present their forecasts to the class.
Get Outside With Weather Activity #9 – Observe the Clouds
Go outside to observe the clouds. Have your students draw the clouds they see. When you go outside to look at the sky, be sure to take note of the different types of clouds that are present so that you can identify them later on paper. Note whether the clouds are white and fluffy, thin and wispy, or low and gray.
Work together as a class to try and identify the types of clouds they saw. The three basic types of clouds are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Cumulus clouds are fluffy and white, often appearing in the sky during the day. Cirrus clouds are thin and wispy, typically made of ice crystals. Stratus clouds are low-lying and gray, often seen near the horizon. Of course, there are other types you might observe too.
Stay Safe With Weather Activity #10 – Watch a Video About Severe Weather Safety
Severe weather safety is an important topic for kids to learn about. Depending on where you live, the most common types of severe weather could include earthquakes, tornadoes, blizzards, or hurricanes. Videos are an easy way to review severe weather safety.
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