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The Cloudstep Weather Journal

Analyze a student's mountain weather journal, temperature graph, and precipitation graph to describe typical weather in each season.

Grade 3ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3-ESS2-1

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students use tables and graphs to compare typical seasonal temperatures.
Students use weather data to describe seasonal precipitation patterns.
Students support a seasonal weather description with evidence from recorded data.

How to use

Read the field journal and explain that typical weather describes a pattern, not one unusual day. Have students cite numbers from the table and graphs in written answers.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

3-ESS2-1

Use tables and graphs of weather data to describe typical weather in a season.

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The Cloudstep Weather Journal

Use a mountain weather journal to describe typical seasonal weather.

Read the field journal

Amara kept a journal at the Cloudstep Mountain Weather Hut. She recorded the temperature and whether precipitation fell at 3 p.m. on four days in each season. Use the journal and graphs to answer the questions.

Amara's Four-Day Records

Amara chose observation days spread through each season. She used the same thermometer and recorded at the same afternoon time. In the table, “yes” means that rain, snow, or another form of precipitation fell during the observation.

The station team found each season's average afternoon temperature by combining its four temperatures and dividing by four. The average temperatures were 35°F in winter, 50°F in spring, 75°F in summer, and 60°F in fall.