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Weather and Environmental Science experiments:
- Rock Exploration - Can investigate hardness scale and look at planes of fracture by breaking rocks or geodes
- Materials Needed: Hammer, different types of rocks and geodes (quarts, limestone, bismuth, ceramic, hard clay, ect)
- Phases of the Moon – Students will make a moon on a stick and then hold it up to a spot light and circle around to see at which quadrant they see the four different phases of the moon
- Materials Needed: Spotlight or lamp, Styrofoam balls, sticks (pencils, skewers)
- Lightning – Students will make a setup where they rub a wool sock and create static electricity and feel a small shock from a pan, lights out will also show the shock
- Materials Needed – Aluminum pie pan, pencil, thumbtack, Styrofoam block, wool sock
- Resources - https://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/lightningact.html
- Materials Needed – Aluminum pie pan, pencil, thumbtack, Styrofoam block, wool sock
- All about Weather & Climate Learning Center Kit
- Comes with 4 guides (need expo markers)
- Comes with a board game (need paper and pencil for recording score sheet)
- Can supplement the activity with the weather tools provided in the lab
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