Weather affects our lives every day. It determines which clothes we choose to wear in the morning and how we go about our daily activities. On a larger scale, weather patterns and seasons determine when and where we grow crops for food, and where we choose to live. By understanding weather better, we can make more informed decisions in these areas.

Recognizing, identifying, and measuring weather’s patterns are an important first step to understand how the Earth works. This kit will help you teach weather concepts by:

• Motivating: Each unit begins with a simple demonstration or class project to motivate scouts. The demonstration will perplex them with unanswered questions or challenge them with a troop goal.
• Building Concepts: The activities build knowledge through a series of concrete steps.
• Girls explore, ask questions, and make own discoveries first. These concrete experiences enable them to internalize scientific explanations, definitions, and principles.
• Using Context: Real-world problems begin each unit to answer the nagging questions. These problem- solving challenges have many solutions for girls to propose and explore. They also provide a tool for closure and assessment; girls must apply the knowledge they gained through learning activities to real-world situations.
• Expanding: Included in this teaching guide are many cross-curricular extensions. They can be used to help girls recognize the interconnectedness of science with other subject matter.

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