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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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Book Review: Las Mañanitas

The celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is important throughout Mexico and other parts of the world. Her feast day is Dec. 12, and the celebrations honoring her appearance to Juan Diego in 1531 begin a few days before that.

Whether you celebrate yourself or just want to  share about the celebration at home or in your classroom, Las Mañanitas: The Beautiful Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a good place to start. The book, by Ernesto Joel Vega Rosales and Jeanette Gonzalez Seneviratne, with illustrations by Dana Sanmar, tells the story of a family’s celebration of the feast day in both English and Spanish.

They prepare with a novena, which is nine days of prayers and preparations. The children, Lucia and Pablo, are given special outfits made by their grandmother that look like what Juan Diego might have worn when he saw Our Lady. The book describes the prayers that are made each day, such as a prayer for respect for life, for families and for the indigenous people of the Americas, to name a few.

As told in the book, Juan Diego was a native Mexican born near modern day Mexico City. His given name was Cuaauhtlatoatzin, which means “He who speaks like an eagle.” When he converted to Christianity his name was changed to Juan Diego, and as he walked to church he passed a hill called Tepeyac. One day he heard the birds singing especially beautifully and a voice called him to go to the top of the hill.

There he saw Our Lady of Guadalupe, who asked him to tell the bishop she wanted a chapel built in her name at the foot of the hill. The bishop asked for a sign that Juan Diego really saw her, and later she had him collect flowers that she blessed and take them to the bishop. When Juan Diego dropped the flowers, an image of Our Lady could be seen on his cloak, which is still on display in her basilica to this day.

The feast day is celebrated as mañanitas, which includes singing, indigenous music and dancing, and children presenting flowers to Our Lady. Juan Diego is remembered today as being humble, brave and faithful, and was the first indigenous American made a saint.

The book is colorful and tells the story in a clear way, and it’s fun to have it both in English and Spanish if you teach Spanish or speak Spanish at home or in the classroom. It’s a great way to learn the basics of the celebration and the story of Juan Diego and why he is still remembered today.

About the book: 40 pages, paperback, published 2024 by Loyola Press. Suggested retail price $14.99.