Graph the Weather

Turn a month of weather into a graph.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 19

A calendar shows the weather day by day. A graph shows the whole month at once!
Count each kind of weather: eight sunny days, three cloudy days, and three rainy days. Each picture on the graph is one day.
Now we can see a pattern: we had lots of sunny weather!
Your turn! Make the graph match: 5 sunny, 4 cloudy, and 6 rainy days.

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.
S1E1.a — Represent data in tables and/or graphs to identify and describe different types of weather and the characteristics of each type.