Charting the Weather: a guest post by What Do We Do All Day?

What Do We Do All Day?

Today  I have a  guest post from What Do We Do All Day? 
 Because she lives in the city with no car, no yard and a tiny apartment in a big city, she sometimes she has to be creative to keep her young ones busy. We all benefit from her creativity. Today she shares her project on charting weather. This is an activity that is simple and open to a wide age group.

In November Kiddo tracked the daily high and low temperatures on a piece of graph paper. This was fun for him since he is so attracted to numbers and all things weather-related. He liked studying the graph everyday while he ate (it hung and the wall near the table). I think if we do this again, we will use a larger graph (easier for little fingers), but he enjoyed it.

For older kids you could make this into a more advanced project by:
  1. tracking the difference in high and low temperature every day
  2. tracking the discrepancy between the predicted and the actual temperatures
  3. calculating the change in temperature from day to day
  4. calculating the average temperature
For Preschoolers there are lots of fun ways to track the weather, take a look over at this post at Blissful Kids or take a look at the weather wheel Kiddo made two years ago.

Extra Credit Reading:
The Best Book of Weather
If Frogs Made the Weather

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