Weather - Wind

Curricular concept: Weather – Identify the following aspects of weather: wind; predict results of an investigation based on life, physical and Earth and space sciences; observe common objects using multiple senses
Grade level: Kindergarten
Tools needed: prediction chart, various heavy/light items from around the room (such as paper clips, crayons, scrap paper, scissors), one straw for each child, various wind books such as:
• The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
• Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros
• Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch
• Wind by Marion Dane Bauer

Web resources:
• Make a Pinwheel
• Beaufort Scale

Strategy: Students will gather various items from around the room to see how the wind affects it. The student will draw and label each item and then make a prediction on how the “wind”, blown from the straw, will affect it. Students will then blow through the straw at the item and record what happened. Students will then make a pinwheel. They will use the straw again to make it move in the “wind”. Student will then go outside with the pinwheels to see how fast they move and observe the wind in general. They will then go inside and view the Beaufort Scale to determine the wind speed.