Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades K-4, Grades 5-8
Subject
Mathematics, Numbers and Operations
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Students will explore precipitation patterns in different locations by using cubes to make graphs of precipitation data. There are basic and intermediate versions requiring different levels of math skills (rounding decimals as well as analysis tools such as mean and range). Extensions include videos and animated datasets to prompt more observations and discussion. Instructions are also given for teachers to access data to create templates for their own locations.
This lesson plan includes teacher and student pages, a slideshow presentation and an optional 3D printer file to create bases for precipitation towers.
Next Generation Science Standards: ESS2.A, ESS2.
Common Core Mathematics Standards: MP4, MP2