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Rain Gauge Activity
Provided by: CLEAN |Published on: November 16, 2023
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Synopsis
- In this lesson, students will review the water cycle, create rain gauges, and learn why precise data gathering is necessary and important.
- Students will get to experiment, create different rain gauge designs, and learn about the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission and its importance.
Subjects: Chemistry, Earth and Space Sciences, Engineering
Authors: NASA
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- This inquiry-based activity is engaging and allows for a variety of results.
- The lesson does a great job of providing a lot of context to deepen understanding.
Additional Prerequisites
- The link to the article explaining the importance of engineering skills does not work.
- Some blue words in the Teacher Guide look like links but are not clickable.
- There is narration for the video clip on slide 7, contrary to what it says in the Teacher Guide.
- Students should already know the forms of water or states of matter.
Differentiation
- If time permits, students may enjoy demonstrations to illustrate evaporation, condensation, and the fact that salt does not evaporate with water.
- This lesson would be a great follow-up to this lesson on exploring the water cycle or any other exploration of the water cycle.
- Language arts students can demonstrate their understanding by writing about the importance of precise precipitation data.
- Students can log precipitation for a week and create a graph using this resource.
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