Middle School Science Lessons

Adopt a City Lesson 8 – Weather Station Models

Objectives: students will learn how to create and read weather station models by collecting, analyzing, and visually representing real-time weather data.

• Lesson Materials:
  • NOAA – Real time station models – Have students make observations of their geographic location before and after the lesson
  • Google Slides to introduce Station Models & Guided Practice (view only, make a copy)
  • Handouts of Station Model Symbols
    • NJ Seeds Version
    • NY State Earth Science Reference Table for the Regents Exam 2024
  • Google Doc Handout for practicing reading and creating models and long term data collection (view only, make a copy)
    • Optional: Older version of practicing WSM (pdf)
• Additional Resources
  • Penn State: enter your weather data and it will create a station entry for you
  • BBC Bite Size: Synoptic Charts
  • Station Models – Advanced

• Lesson Tips:
  • I used the Google slides as a teacher lead lesson to practice reading and creating the symbols then had the students work with a parter to create models for recent weather data in our town.
  • You can do the data collection for your location together, then have students do data collection for their adopted city as additional practice.
  • Moving forward, each time we collected weather data, students placed their Weather Station Model on a large dry-erase world map that I had in my classroom

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