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Grade 1 Science · World 3: Weather Station · Level 16
Wind Vanes
Tell which way the wind is blowing.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 16
- A wind vane is an arrow that spins on a pole. The wind pushes its wide tail, so the arrow tip turns to face the wind.
- So the arrow tip points to where the wind is coming from. This wind vane points to the school. The wind is coming from the school!
- Wind blows things away from where it comes from. Wind from the school would blow leaves toward the house.
- Wind vanes go up high, on roofs and poles, where the wind can reach them.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S1E1.c — Plan and carry out investigations on current weather conditions by observing, measuring with simple weather instruments (thermometer, wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) in a periodic journal, on a calendar, and graphically.