What You Need: Empty 2-liter plastic soda bottle, scissors, pebbles, water, ruler, permanent marker Have students draw rainbows of their own after you’ve finished the experiment. Try changing the amount of water in the bowl to see how it changes the rainbow. Ask students to describe the shape of the rainbow and what colors they see. Adjust the mirror accordingly to see the rainbow’s colors appear on the paper. Shine the flashlight at the part of the mirror that is underwater. (This student should stand next to the student who is holding the flashlight.) A third student should hold the piece of paper to catch the light that is reflected off the mirror. Call on another student to point the flashlight at the mirror. What To Do: Bring a rainbow right into your classroom! Choose one student to hold the mirror in the bowl so it is partially underwater. What You Need: Bowl of water, handheld mirror, flashlight, sheet of white paper Each morning, have students move the arrows on their weather wheels to show the day’s weather. To finish the project, aid students in attaching arrows to their wheels by pushing the fasteners through the center of the plates. Then help students write the weather words in the appropriate sections. In each section, students should illustrate one of the weather conditions listed on the board. Have students use a crayon to divide the plates into four equal sections. Hand out plates to students to make weather wheels. Cut out arrows from construction paper to be used as pointers.Īs a class, brainstorm types of weather that occur in the spring, such as rain, sun, clouds, and wind. What To Do: Before the lesson, use a pencil point to punch a small hole through the middle of each paper plate (one for each child). What You Need: Paper plates, construction paper, crayons, fasteners You could change the amount of water, the temperature of the water, or the direction you rotate the bottles. Then try changing some factors and have students predict what might happen. Give each student a chance to create a twister. Then, grasp onto the middle, at the connector, and spin both bottles quickly in a counterclockwise direction and watch as a tornado forms! Flip your contraption over so that the bottle with the liquid is on top. Use a tornado tube connector to securely fasten the top of that soda bottle with the top of the empty soda bottle. Add a few drops of food coloring and some glitter.
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Start by filling one plastic soda bottle about 2⁄3 full with water. Then, tell students you’re going to make your own twister in a bottle. What To Do: Talk with students about how spring weather brings its share of natural phenomena, including tornadoes, and share an age-appropriate book about twisters if tornadoes are prevalent in your region, use this opportunity to talk about tornado safety. What You Need: Two empty 2-liter plastic soda bottles, water, food coloring, glitter, a tornado tube connector (sold at most teacher-supply stores) Repeat the activity with another shade of food coloring. Then wait for it to start “raining” in color. Invite students to predict what will happen when the cloud becomes heavier because of the added liquid. Have a student volunteer use a dropper to put food coloring in one spot on top of the cloud. Then add shaving cream (the “cloud”) to fill the rest of the jar. Pour water into a mason jar until it’s about half full. Water is released from the cloud as rain (or snow) when the cloud gets too heavy.īring students inside to make their own clouds in a jar. When enough water vapor comes together, a cloud forms. Explain that the air is full of water we can’t see it’s called water vapor. Talk about the different shapes and sizes. What To Do: Take a trip outside and observe some clouds.
Need some weather science that kindergarten kids can do? Check out this list of weather science experiments for kindergarten that won’t overwhelm new learners.What You Need: Mason jars, water, shaving cream, food coloring, several droppers Weather Science Experiments for Kindergarten If you need weather science experiments for preschoolers, check out our list of weather science experiments for preschoolers that are specially designed for younger learners. Weather Science Experiments for Preschoolers You’ve made a blizzard in a jar, now make a hurricane in a bowl!ĭetermine how air pressure works, and what that means for weather. Have you ever wondered how fronts work? Now you can show kids how they work in a way that every kid can understand.ĭid you know you can make your own lighting? Right inside your house? Kids will love this one.