Photos and descriptions of Second Grade science outreach program on Weather at James Buchanan Elementary School.
Weather and Weather Station James Buchanan Elementary
School, Academic Year 2012-2013
Grade 2
Dr. DeLeo came into our classrooms to describe the weather station that he was going to place on the roof of our school. He wanted us to see the weather station before he moved it to the roof. The weather station is wireless. This means that the weather readings are sent by radio waves (without wires) right to display units in our classrooms. So, after Dr. DeLeo places the weather station on the roof, we will be able to see the outside temperature, wind speed, and so forth from right in our classrooms!
Weather is one of the science units we are studying this year. Before the end of the year, we will know a real lot about the weather. The weather station has instruments that measure, temperature, wind direction, wind speed, rainfall, barometric pressure, and relative humidity. We already knew about many of these. Dr. DeLeo left the weather station in our classrooms for a while before placing it on the roof. A photo of the weather station, while still in our classroom, is shown on the right.
Dr. DeLeo showed us how the sensors on the weather station sent the weather information to the receivers in our classrooms. When he blew on the weather station's anemometer, making it spin just like the wind will do when it is on the roof, we could read the wind speed on the receivers.
Photos of the indoor receivers are shown on the right. Notice the antenna that receives the weather information sent from the weather station by radio waves.
After the weather station was in our classrooms for a few weeks, Dr. DeLeo brought it up to the roof of the school. We all watched as he waved to us from the roof and described what he was about to do. The photo in the middle below shows Dr. DeLeo installing the weather station on the roof of our school. It is held down by three concrete blocks, so it would take winds stronger than a hurricane to move it.
Below are some more photos of the weather station on the roof. The one on the right shows labels for most of the parts.
Below are six photos showing the weather station as seen from the ground. In each of the two rows, the view gets closer and closer as you go from left to right. The weather station is in the center of each picture.
Dr. DeLeo was on the roof while two of James Buchanan's top reporters interviewed him from the James Buchanan Radio Station, WJBE. Mr. Craven handled all of the technical details, making a live interview possible. The reporters asked Dr. DeLeo questions about the weather station. To see the VIDEO, click the play button on the photo on the left.
Our teachers are helping us to record the weather as part of our science unit on weather. As part of the program, we each got a weather placemat to keep. Science is great!
I hope you have enjoyed this web presentation as much as we enjoyed sharing the actual learning experience with your son or daughter. Although we have endeavored to exclude photographs where permission has been denied, it is possible for errors to occur. If you would like us to remove a photograph of your son or daughter for any reason, please send me an e-mail message at lgd0@lehigh.edu or call me at 610-758-3413, and we will remove it promptly. Please note that we will never associate a child's full or last name with a photograph except in circumstances where special permission was explicitly provided. Thank you. Gary DeLeo.
