Top Secret Weather Project

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: MEASURING OUR WEATHER

 

PROBLEM: The evil Dr. Noah Taul has developed a device that can control the weather. He can make it rain in the desert, snow in Hawaii, or have a heat wave in Alaska. He is demanding that every nation in the world pay him a fair weather fee of 1 billion dollars a year to make sure they don’t have really yucky weather all the time. The United States has already said that they will not give in to terrorists, and will not pay. This could mean certain disaster to our country, and no fun for the children of the U.S.A. who want to play outside.

 

YOUR MISSION: Should you choose to accept it, (no it’s not an option) is to help our own scientist gather necessary information about our own weather, by providing them with background information about wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, and air temperature. If successful, U.S. scientists will make their own Weather Machine to foil Dr. Taul’s evil plans.

 

By using the latest technology (or what ever you have laying around the house, Don’t Spend A Penny!!!) and the plans on our top-secret web pages,

http://www.ehow.com/how_4867474_make-thermometer-kids.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/gather_data/anemometer.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/gather_data/barometer.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/gather_data/raingauge.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/gather_data/windvane.htm

http://www.ehow.com/how_4962549_make-elementary-school-weather-instruments.html

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/anemometer.html

http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/barometer.html

http://starryskies.com/try_this/baro1.html

http://sln.fi.edu/weather/todo/hygrometer.html

http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/barometer.html

http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/dixie.html

you will construct ONE weather device. (With a parents permission, you may google other sites.) You may get input from your parents, but they may not actually touch your project. If your parents say you cannot do something, then you cannot do it. You must get parent permission before operating power tools, remember, they cannot touch your project or help you. You must complete the project on your own. If a parent helps, points will be deducted from your final grade. The deadline for the completion of this project is Monday, September 12, 2011.

On the morning of Monday, September 12^th, the Mission Impossible Team will bring their Weather Instruments to school and gather in a top secret location. There students will demonstrate and use their weather instruments, gather weather data, and save the world.

 

Mission Parameters: Below is a list of approved Weather Instruments. Please note that some of these experiments are more involved, and or more difficult than others, please read them all carefully.

 

Approved: Thermometer, anemometer, barometer, hygrometer. With permission only, or can be added to project for extra credit: Weather vane, windsock rain gauge.