Weather Wonders

At Ground Education, we emphasize many science concepts in our school learning gardens.  These past few weeks we've been observing the weather with first grade classes throughout Long Beach.  We installed our own simple weather stations to measuring temperature, wind, and the amount of water our gardens receive each week (I'd call it rain, but that's really not the case this year!)  We made predictions, practiced reading our instruments, and recorded our data in weather journals.  And to make it personal and extra fun, the students made old-fashioned pinwheels to model a wind turbine.