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Primary School - Grades K-3
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Is One Room of Your House Colder Than Another?
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Investigate how pressure in the atmosphere is linked to the formation of clouds by making a cloud chamber.
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Is the air the same temperature in the sun and in the shade?
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Snow, Sun and Sky in Saskatoon
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Create a fog in a bottle.
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Create a cloud in a bottle.
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Create a soda bottle cyclone.
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Weather
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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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P=Project E=Experiment
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What Factors Are Conducive to Fog?
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Do Clouds Tell Us What Weather Is Coming?
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Investigate patterns and variations of weather and climate in your local area by comparing historical weather data.
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Investigate how the speed of the wind is measured by an anemometer.
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Measure the percentage of oxygen in air samples.
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Make and use a hygrometer.
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Investigate seasonal weather patterns and climates of different hemispheres by comparing historical weather data for major cities around the globe.
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Research Clouds and Precipitation
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What is Lightning?
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How does precipitation vary?
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Make your own barometer.
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Build and use your own rain gauge.
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Build and use your own snow gauge.
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Investigate the water cycle and the role of the Sun as the driving force behind the water cycle.
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Factros affecting rate of evaporation
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Measure how fast the wind blows (anemometer).
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Measure wind direction (wind vane).
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Does the wind change with height?
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Weather
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Everything about rain
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Use an anemometer and an infrared thermometer to determine how wind speed affects the rate of cooling of an object.
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Measure the amount of haze produced by pollutants in the atmosphere by constructing a photometer.
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Do Smog Levels Vary During the Course of the Day? (see both links)
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The 'Global Conveyor Belt' - Make a model of ocean currents and measure how the heat input affects velocity of the currents.
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What Weather Factors Create Radiation Fog?
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Investigate how axial tilt affects how the Sun's rays strike Earth and create seasons.
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Determine if barometric pressure would register the same inside and outside and test the reliability of a homemade barometer against the weather channel data.
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Which is the most accurate way to predict the weather without using advanced technology, like satellites and computers: homemade instruments vs. observations of nature.
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Use weather balloon sounding data to investigate how air temperature and pressure vary with altitude.
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Investigate the effect of atmospheric temperature on snowfall depth.
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Compare long-term precipitation patterns in different regions of the country by using historical climate data to make histograms and analyze the data.
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Build and use a psychrometer, a simple instrument for measuring the relative humidity of the air.
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Investigate change in water temperature as a result of El Nino.
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Are the Many Losses of Vessels in the Bermuda Triangle Caused by Extraterrestrial Sources or a Simpler Scientific Answer
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Determine how variations of humidity, temperature, air pressure and nucleation conditions affect cloud formation.
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Determine if barometric pressure and the jet stream have a predictable relationship and use that relationship to assist in forecasting wet or dry weather for the following day.
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See how weather causes and affects the colors in sunrises and sunsets.
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Why is the sky blue?
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What amount of carbon dioxide affects temperature change in the atmosphere?
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How do clouds affect weather?
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How will climate and weather be affected if the earth were cubical?
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Does the wind change with height?
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What is climate change and how it will affect our life?
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Weather
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High School - Grades 10-12
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P=Project E=Experiment
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Use the Synoptic Code for the Prediction of Weather
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How Does the Tilt of Earth's Axis Affect the Seasons?
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Test whether errors in GPS (global positioning system) signals are correlated with geomagnetic storm activity in the ionosphere.
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Can we predict future temperatures using the number of sunspots?
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Weather Anomalies and Natural Disasters
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Calculate relative humidity
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Is it possible to forecast the weather by using simple techniques such as observing wind patterns, cloud formations and using simple measuring devices?
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Study of tropospheric ozone using OSIRIS and TOMS data.
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Interdisciplinary Topic: Weather
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Climate Change Milestones
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Earth Sciences Resources
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Weather Resources
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Tornado Resources
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Solar System Quiz
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Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Weather Jokes
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Earth Sciences Fair Projects Books
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