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Extreme-Weather Broadcast Center

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Grades 6-860-75 minSource: Creative Dad Company

Students run a mock weather broadcast desk. They turn real live or recent weather data into clear advice for the public during a pretend severe-weather event. It is weather science and communication under real time pressure.

Budget levels

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Quick Start

Digital downloads only.

$0 to buy. Printing noted separately.

Student time: one class period, one day.

Teacher prep / build-ahead: separate from student time.

Scale it

The default plan is one class period on a single day.

Scale back: Fit it into a shorter period, use fewer effects, or run a demo instead of a build.

Scale up: Add one extra effect, or spread the share-out across another day.

Ambiance video

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  • ThermometerBorrow or school hasuse what you have
  • hygrometer or weather appBorrow or school hasuse what you have
  • data log sheetsPrintinguse what you have
  • printed weather mapsPrintinguse what you have

Full Experience

Required materials for the class.

$0 per class (class of about 30, 6 groups).

Student time: one day.

Teacher prep / build-ahead: separate from student time.

Scale it

The default plan is one school day.

Scale back: Fit the build into one period with fewer effects.

Scale up: Spread the work across days, or add more effects.

Total Transformation

The bigger kit, with every optional item included.

$0 per class (class of about 30, 6 groups).

Student time: one day (one session, one-day event).

Teacher prep / build-ahead: separate from student time.

Scale it

The default plan is one session, a one-day event.

Scale back: Shorten the event, or run a demo for a smaller audience.

Scale up: Spread the build and the event across days, or invite a bigger audience.

Materials

Real or recent severe-weather data set; Script and graphics (paper or poster); Thermometer; hygrometer or weather app; data log sheets; printed weather maps

Materials links go to Amazon. Prices are estimates and may change.

As an Amazon Associate, Creative Dad Company earns from qualifying purchases.

  • Real or recent severe-weather data set

    Real or recent severe-weather data set

    No link

  • Script and graphics

    Script and graphics (paper or poster)

    No link

Steps

  1. Review a recent severe-weather data set and predict what the public most needs to know.
  2. Mini-lesson: warm moist and cold dry air masses, and what happens at fronts.
  3. Collect data: each session, record temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction, and sky conditions at the club and from three nearby weather stations, plus an hourly dataset from a past cold-front passage.
  4. Graph temperature, humidity, and pressure over time and mark when the front passed. Write an evidence statement explaining how the air masses caused the change.
  5. Build a broadcast script and a map showing the air masses and front, with plain-language advice.
  6. Get a live data update during the broadcast and adjust the explanation and advice without causing panic.

Standards mapped

  • NGSS · MS-ESS2-5

    Collect data to provide evidence for how the motions and complex interactions of air masses results in changes in weather conditions.