This instructional resource includes a series of lessons that allow elementary students to investigate weather phenomena both locally and in other places around the world. Students engage in both hands-on activities and real-time data investigations using information available on the Internet. This combination of local and global explorations allows them to relate what they are observing locally to remote locations. Through these explorations students develop a basic understanding of how weather can be described in measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind and precipitation. The lesson plans which make up this module have been designed to allow teachers to select the ones which fit into their curriculum to allow for flexibility in implementation. (author/ts) In several activities, the teacher chooses which cities to investigate. Incorporating an Ohio focus in these lessons would be a natual fit. (tc)

In the suggested Engineering Lesson, students design and test their own wind socks.