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Hi! My name is Kevin. I just started science camp.
I knew I’d get to catch bugs and learn about the moon. But I didn’t know I’d get to be a weather detective, too!
Here’s what happened…
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I got up early the first morning.
The sun was just up.
When I went outside, it was cold!
I ran back into the house to put on my sweater.
That felt a lot better.
Then Mom drove me to camp.
We had a blast!
We caught bugs and saw an astronaut video.
Then we went out to play.
It got hot at lunchtime, so we went inside for Show-and-Tell.
Annie brought Wilbur, her pet frog.
I’d like to have a pet frog.
At the end of the day, Dad picked me up from camp.
Mom was making dinner, so I went out to play.
The sun was starting to go down.
It was getting dark and cold out!
I needed my sweater, but couldn’t find it anywhere.
I looked in the laundry.
I looked in my drawer.
I even looked under my bed.
Where did it go?
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I never found my sweater, so I put on my jacket.
It kept me warm until dinnertime.
Then it was time for bed.
The next morning, it was cold again!
I put on my jacket, jumped in the car, and Mom drove me to camp.
It was amazing.
We looked at a butterfly wing under a magnifying glass.
Then we saw a video about whales.
After that, we had story time out on the grass.
But then it got hot, so we went in to eat lunch.
That afternoon, Dad picked me up and we headed home.
We ate dinner, and I went out to play.
The sun was starting to go down.
It was getting dark and cold out!
I needed my sweater, but couldn’t find it anywhere.
I was cold, but what could I wear?
I never found my sweater. Now I can’t find my jacket, either!
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I was cold, but I couldn’t find my sweater or my jacket.
Then I thought about my new sweatshirt. It would keep me warm!
I started to pull on my sweatshirt, but Mom stopped me at the door.
“Where are your sweater and jacket?” she asked.
“I don’t know,” I said. “I can’t find them anywhere.”
I thought Mom would be mad, but she wasn’t.
She laughed and told me to think where they might be.
So that’s what I did.
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I thought about my first day at camp.
“It was cold,” I said, “then it got hot, and then cold again.”
“And the next day?” Mom asked.
“The same thing!” I replied.
Here’s what I figured out: It’s cold in the morning before the sun warms things up.
It gets hot at noon, when the sun is shining.
Then it gets cold again when the sun goes down.
I found my sweater and jacket right where I’d left them—back at camp.
Now I know when it will be hot and when it will be cold.
And I hardly ever lose my clothes anymore.
THE END
You can tell if the wind is blowing just by looking out the window — if you know what to look for.
1) Listen to the poem “Who Has Seen the Wind?” as your teacher reads it out loud.
2) Observe and discuss: “Can you see the wind? Look out the window and tell me if it’s windy. How do you know?”
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3) Here are some things that tell us that the wind is blowing.
- A flapping flag
- Fluttering leaves
- Dead leaves or dust blowing across the ground
4) Think about what it's like to be a tree in the wind. Stand up and pretend to be:
- a tree on a calm day
- a tree when the wind is blowing gently
- a tree when the wind is blowing really hard
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Below is an idea for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.
- Lesson Assessment : Open-ended drawing prompt
- Two hundred years ago, a British Navy officer named Francis Beaufort made observations that told him how fast the wind was blowing. His observations became the Beaufort Scale. People still sometimes use the Beaufort Scale to estimate wind speed. You and your students can use this to estimate how fast the wind is blowing today.
