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Introduction to Weather Activity for Kids

Rain Gauge DIY

  • Duration: 30 min
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Cost: $0 to $5

Make a simple rain gauge to observe how much it rains!

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Material List

  • 1Ruler
  • 1Cup of sand or pebbles
  • 1Permanent marker
  • 1Empty 2-liter bottle
  • 1Pair of scissors
  • 4Paper clips
  • 1Rain journal

Instructions

  • 1Have an adult help you cut the top off an empty soda bottle.
  • 2Fill up the bottom part of the bottle with pebbles or sand.
  • 3Use a ruler to mark the bottle every inch or centimeter with a black mark.
  • 4Put the top part of the bottle that was cut off upside down over the opening.
  • 5Use four paper clips to hold it together.
  • 6Put your finished rain gauge outside to collect rain.
  • 7Record the amounts of rain in a rain journal.

How It Works

When it rains, the rain will fall into the rain gauge. The markings on the side can help you see how much rain falls on certain days or in certain months. Rainfall amounts from previous years are just one of the things weather scientists use to help predict the weather by looking at patterns.

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Check out the Full Lesson on Introduction to Weather

In this lesson, we learn that:

  • Weather tells us what the sky and air around us are like on any given day.
  • The weather can be sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, stormy or snowing.
  • Scientists can predict the weather by understanding patterns.

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