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Amara's Spice Map Climate Journal

Use a student's spice map journal, temperature graphs, and precipitation records to compare climates in three world regions.

Grade 3ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3-ESS2-2

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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 temperature and precipitation information to describe climates in different world regions.
Students distinguish a one-day weather observation from a long-term climate pattern.
Students support climate comparisons with evidence from graphs and records.

How to use

Read Amara's journal together, then have students compare the graphs and records. Ask students to cite at least two numbers in each written climate explanation.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

3-ESS2-2

Use information to describe climates in different regions of the world.

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Amara's Spice Map Climate Journal

Use a field journal and climate records to describe three regions.

Read the kitchen journal

Read Amara's field journal and use the graphs and records to answer the questions.

A Climate Map for the Spice Shelf

Amara is helping her class make a spice-shelf climate map. The class is learning where spices are grown, so Amara studies long-term records from three regions: Lima, Peru; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Nairobi, Kenya. Climate information uses averages collected over many years. It helps describe usual patterns, not the conditions on one particular day.

For four days, Amara wrote weather observations in her field journal. On Monday, Lima was 23°C with no rain, Reykjavik was 4°C with rain, and Nairobi was 20°C with no rain. On Tuesday, Lima was 24°C with no rain, Reykjavik was 10°C with rain, and Nairobi was 22°C with rain. On Wednesday, Lima was 22°C with no rain, Reykjavik was 8°C with no rain, and Nairobi was 19°C with rain. On Thursday, Lima was 23°C with mist, Reykjavik was 6°C with no rain, and Nairobi was 21°C with no rain.

The long-term climate records list these average yearly precipitation amounts: Lima, 2 centimeters; Reykjavik, 84 centimeters; Nairobi, 92 centimeters. The records also show that the average January temperature is 24°C in Lima, 2°C in Reykjavik, and 21°C in Nairobi. The average July temperature is 18°C in Lima, 11°C in Reykjavik, and 18°C in Nairobi. The class will use these records, rather than one day's weather, to write climate descriptions.