Weather Wise

                                                                                                    

As the weather is always the main talking point of every day we decided we wanted to make a weather station so we set up a crate on an exposed corner of the fence - and yes you guessed it - it is raining! 

Each person was given an element of the weather station to create

starting with the barometer by adding a pressurised tube into water in a beaker and measuring the bubble rising and falling in the tube

 Next we made an Humidity gague by stealing a long strand of hair from a student! As the humidity increases the hair tightens and raises up the plastic indicator

 Then we made an Anometer to test the wind speed out of paper cups and a pencil

 The we needed a compass so that we could check the wind direction

 and a weather vane

 readjusting the barometer

 Drawing up a weather diary for the data

 Installing the Anometer 

 we added a thermometer so we can check the minimum and maximum temperature and a rain guague so we can measure the rainfall

Making our first record and surprise surprise there is rain in the guauge already! 

adding and checking the data - a job well done