Weather Wise Try It

The Weather Wise Try it is a Council Own Try It from Black Diamond Council.  You can order this from their online store.

Read a fun weather story like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Activity 1:
Learn about homemade weather instruments, and make at least one. Use a weather watch calendar for at least three days.  (If you are going to do the Space Explorer Try It, you can combine this with the phases of the moon and record both for four weeks.)

Homemade Barometer.  Another Barometer
Homemade Hygrometer
Homemade Rain Gauge, another rain gauge
Homemade Weather Vane, Wind Vane
Homemade Compass
Homemade Anemomoeter

Activity 2:
Learn a weather myth or legend, and share it with a friend. Here's a few choices:

How Thunder and Lightning Came to Be
Weather Legends: Native American Lore and the Science of Weather

Activity 3:
Know the rules of safe conduct during a thunderstorm out of doors and indoors.

1. Inside a house during the storm, avoid showering or bathing because plumbing can conduct electricity. Don't use a corded telephone, but cordless and cell phones are okay.
2. If you are caught outside during a thunderstorm, find shelter immediately. If boating or swimming, get to land. If there is no building available, take shelter in a car. If you are in the woods, find an area with a clump of trees, not one single tree. If there is no place and you are in an open area, get away from trees, metal objects, and poles. Crouch low to the ground and place your hands on your knees, head between knees.
3. Myths about lightening: Rubber-soled shoes and rubber tires do not provide protection. Lightening can strike twice in the same place and may because the place is more vulnerable. Finally, there can be lightening and no rain.

Activity 4:

Learn about and make the five weather flags. Fly a weather flag each day.

Activity 5:

Scavenger Hunt:

1. Something that needs sun
2. Something that is blowing in the wind
3. Something that is bending in the wind
4. Something that cannot bend in the wind
5. Something that could protect you from the rain
6. A place that gets no, or very little, sunshine
7. Something that reflects sunlight
8. A cloud
9. Something the color of a cloud
10. Something that is the color of the sky on a sunny day 
11. Something that is the sign of the season (leaves turning color, plant shoots, bird nests, tree, blossoms, acorns, insects, etc.)
12. Something that moves from place to place
13. A shadow of a living thing
14. A shadow of a non-living thing
15. Something that has been changed or damaged by the weather
16. A piece of clothing that has something to do with the weather
17. Something that could soak up the rain
18. A puddle
19. Something that feels warm from the sun
20. Something that is damp

These could also be done in teams.  For fun, if you have some instant / digital cameras- the girls could take photos of the items they find.

-OR-

Take a Wind Walk.

Activity 6:

Learn ten of the weather symbols used by the National Weather Service.