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20 Weather STEM Activities for Kids

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Spring breaks all kinds of unique weather opportunities in our area! Weather is always changing, and there are always great times to learn about weather. If you are looking for some fun activities for a weather unit, or you want to teach your kids about spring weather, these activities are perfect!

These weather STEM activities are perfect for kids and will teach them all about the weather in a fun and interactive way! Your kids can learn all about the weather safely, without having to do any storm chasing! Here are 20 weather STEM activities for kids to do at home.

Weather Craft kits and Activity books.  Check out this article on the best STEM gifts for kids.

 

  1. Weather Tracking 
  2. How to Make a Tornado in a Bottle
  3. How to Make Pinwheels
  4. How to Make Frost in a Can
  5. Snow Storm in a Jar
  6. Recording and Graphing Weather
  7. Simple Water Cycle Activity
  8. Water Cycle Science Discovery Bottle
  9. Green Science Weather Station
  10. Snow Ice Simple Science
  11. Build a Wind Turbine
  12. Make a Hurricane
  13. Homemade Thermometer Science Experiment
  14. Pudding Cup Anemometer
  15. Solar Oven
  16. Simple Heat Experiment
  17. Rainbow Windsock
  18. Blizzard in a Bag
  19. Pine Cone Weather Station 
  20. Cloud in a Jar

 

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Lesson Plans – Moss and Lichen Unit Study

I guess moss and lichen are more things that you see in the spring than in the summer, but there are some deep shady parts of our yard that stay mossy all year, and summer is a fine time to look for plants that like to live in shady, wet areas.

Raising Up Wild Things has a really pretty set of printables to use for a moss and lichen unit study.

And just in case you’re like me and don’t really know the difference, moss is a plant that grows in damp wooded areas, while lichen is a combination of fungus and algae that live together. Lichen can live in different environments but are often found in places where you would find moss, too.

The printable includes drawings of some common moss such as sphagnum moss and wood moss, as well as common lichen shapes (crusty, leafy and shrubby). There are good sized images you can print out and laminate to use to compare to specimens you find when you are exploring nature.

There’s also a forest floor coloring page and a printable journaling page where kids can write or draw their observations and there are a few questions older kids can answer.

You can use these when you go on a walk in the woods (or the back yard) to talk about what you are seeing, or combine them with other resources to talk about things that live in the forest. Check them out at Raising Up Wild Things.

This PDF from the Morton Arboretum has a bunch of pictures of different kinds of moss and where to find them, which could also be helpful in your studies. Learn more about lichen, including what they are and what they are not, in this article from the US Forest Service.

[Photo: Raising Up Wild Things]