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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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Learn about Vikings for Leif Erikson Day

Leif Erikson Day is celebrated on Oct. 9, and it’s a great time to learn more about the Vikings and why we still remember Erikson all these years later. 

If you don’t know about Leif Erikson (sometimes spelled Eriksson), he’s believed to have been born in Iceland, and is considered the first European to set foot on continental America, more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus. 

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a printable mini book about Leif Erikson and the Vikings for kids to read and color. It talks about who the Vikings were, what kind of ships they used, how they got to America and more. It’s a good overview for younger kids to use. 

A good unit study is available from Simple Living Creative Learning, which includes a page where kids can write what they know, what they want to learn and what they learned through the unit, as well as information on the Vikings, longships, helmets, clothing and more. 

Get a printable Viking unit study with reading passages, comprehension questions and other activities aimed at grades 4-8 from Creative Classroom Core at Teachers Pay Teachers. (And see more Vikings content from TPT here.)

Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus has some great unit study ideas, too, including suggested books and videos. The post includes information about the Viking voyages, society, mythology and ships, as well as some vocabulary and a list of famous Vikings. While you’re over there also check out her free printable lapbook, which includes mini books on ships, a timeline, a Viking women coloring page, draw your own Vikings, geography, ancient runes and more. 

Piqolo Kids has a lesson on Viking women with (available for purchase) worksheets about a day in the life of Viking women. Even if you don’t grab the printables there’s some good resources on that page and a link to a video on Viking women. 

Learn how to draw a Viking ship with instructions from Drawing How to Draw, or grab Vikings coloring and labeling worksheets from Kids Puzzles and Games.

There’s a Leif Erikson Festival annually in Norway, Michigan, which you can learn more about here.