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  • Fort Dorchester Elementary School
  • Summerville, SC
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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In fourth grade, we spend the first nine weeks of school teaching students about weather. We begin early in the year in order to have adequate time for students to see patterns in our weather throughout the year. It is an important concept for students to recognize that patterns in weather help meteorologists to predict future weather. Of course, to find patterns in weather one must observe and measure weather on a daily basis. For years, there have been two ways for this to happen. The first way has been for students to receive second hand knowledge by gathering information online and then recording the information. The second would be to have a small thermometer outside the window of a classroom for students to measure temperature. Measuring wind speed, rainfall and air pressure is an even a more difficult, if not an impossible task. Measuring and studying weather offers so much more for students than just recognizing changes in temperature. Students can learn to read instruments, predict outcomes, make inferences, and make qualitative and quantitative observations. Studying weather is a field in which students should be immersed with plenty of hands on experiences, so I am looking for a donor who would fund a weather station for our school. It would be so rewarding for students to be their own meteorologists. They would take responsibility for their own learning because they would be doing the work. They would be taking the measurements as well as making predictions and inferences based on trends and current weather information. Sometimes it is hard for students to recognize that what they learn "inside the classroom" is to help them be successful when they are "outside of the classroom." Having students work with a weather station will reinforce the connection between the two.

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In fourth grade, we spend the first nine weeks of school teaching students about weather. We begin early in the year in order to have adequate time for students to see patterns in our weather throughout the year. It is an important concept for students to recognize that patterns in weather help meteorologists to predict future weather. Of course, to find patterns in weather one must observe and measure weather on a daily basis. For years, there have been two ways for this to happen. The first way has been for students to receive second hand knowledge by gathering information online and then recording the information. The second would be to have a small thermometer outside the window of a classroom for students to measure temperature. Measuring wind speed, rainfall and air pressure is an even a more difficult, if not an impossible task. Measuring and studying weather offers so much more for students than just recognizing changes in temperature. Students can learn to read instruments, predict outcomes, make inferences, and make qualitative and quantitative observations. Studying weather is a field in which students should be immersed with plenty of hands on experiences, so I am looking for a donor who would fund a weather station for our school. It would be so rewarding for students to be their own meteorologists. They would take responsibility for their own learning because they would be doing the work. They would be taking the measurements as well as making predictions and inferences based on trends and current weather information. Sometimes it is hard for students to recognize that what they learn "inside the classroom" is to help them be successful when they are "outside of the classroom." Having students work with a weather station will reinforce the connection between the two.

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