Science Weekly articles from January 2005

Science Weekly archives from January 2005

Weather forecasting.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... How do you know whether to wear a sweater or a T-shirt when you go to school in the morning? Do you listen to a weather forecast (fore-cast)? Meteorologists (me-te-o-rol-o-gists) are scientists who try to predict (pre-dict) the weather. They...

Vocabulary.(homonyms)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Words that sound alike but are spelled differently, and have different meanings, are called homonyms (hom-o-nyms). Write the correct homonym in each blank space below. Example: Meteorologists predict the weather. (weather/whether) ...

Weekly lab.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Adult Supervision Required wind bane Build a weather station! A. First: build a wind vane to show wind direction. (You need: a cereal box, a pencil, scissors, a pen cap, glue, tape, markers, a wire coat hanger) Step 1:...

Math.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Solve these weather math problems. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 29[degrees] 32[degrees] 36[degrees] 34[degrees] 34[degrees] Friday Saturday 30[degrees] 36[degrees] ...

Writing in science.(making weather rhymes)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Long ago, people made up rhymes and sayings to help them remember ways to predict weather. One famous rhyme is: "Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning." This helped people remember that a colorful sunset...

Challenge: keep a weather journal.(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Keep a weather journal each day for two weeks. For each week, set up your journal as shown below. Write down whether it is sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, snowy, warm, or cold. Look at the clouds and write down whether they are cirrus,...

Puzzle.(weather questions)(Brief Article)
January 17, 2005... Weather Map Key showers rain 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s thuderstorms snow 1. How many cities have precipitation (pre-cip-i-ta-tion) (some kind of rain or snow)?-- 2. Is it raining...