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Sky Notebook by Roger Loper and Suzanna Loper Sky Notebook by Roger Loper and Suzanna Loper Sky Notebook by Roger Loper and Suzanna Loper © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. These materials are based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers DRL-1119584, DRL-1417939, ESI-0242733, ESI-0628272, ESI-0822119. The Federal Government has certain rights in this material. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. These materials are based upon work partially supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A130610 to The Regents of the University of California. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education. Developed by the Learning Design Group at the University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science. Amplify Science Elementary is based on the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading® approach, which is a collaboration between a science team led by Jacqueline Barber and a literacy team led by P. David Pearson. www.scienceandliteracy.org Amplify. 55 Washington Street, Suite 800 Brooklyn, NY 11201 1-800-823-1969 www.amplify.com Grade 3 Sky Notebook ISBN: 978-1-943228-18-8 No matter where on Earth you live, you can see a piece of the sky. Observing the sky can tell you a lot about the weather. How does the sky change from one day to the next? Is the sun shining, or is it hidden by clouds? What color is the sky: blue, gray, or something in between? If the sky changes, does that tell you what kind of weather might be coming? 3 Scientists who study the weather are called meteorologists. Meteorologists observe weather and measure the temperature, the amount of precipitation, and more. They record their data in tables, graphs, and weather maps. Meteorologists look for patterns in their weather data. Noticing patterns helps meteorologists understand and predict the weather. You can notice weather patterns, too. Is the temperature warmer or colder when the sky is clear? After a storm, does the temperature change? A good way to find answers to questions like these is to start a sky notebook. A sky notebook is a place to record what you measure and observe about the weather that is happening in your piece of the sky. You can write in your sky notebook, record data, draw pictures, and even add photographs. 4 This book is my sky notebook. I live in the mountains of western Colorado, and it snows a lot here. I’m going to measure the depth of any snow that falls. I’ll go out the path by the back door and stick a ruler into the snow until it hits the ground. Then I’ll see where the top of the snow comes to on the ruler. I’ll measure the snow before my mom shovels the path. She shovels every afternoon, so I’ll know I’m always measuring new snow that fell in the last 24 hours. 5 January 24 Temperature Depth of new snow Cloud cover 33°F 0 mm partly cloudy Every day when I get home from school, I’m going to take a picture of the sky. I’ll measure the temperature with a thermometer. I’ll write the temperature in a table, along with my snow measurements. Right now it’s sunny, but meteorologists are predicting that snow will fall tonight. 6 Today’s High Temperatures 80°F or above 70°F to 79°F 60°F to 69°F 50°F to 59°F 40°F to 49°F 30°F to 39°F 20°F to 29°F 10°F to 19°F 0°F to 9°F below 0°F I am here. Precipitation in the Last 24 Hours 75 mm or more 50 mm to 74 mm 25 mm to 49 mm 13 mm to 24 mm 1 mm to 12 mm less than 1 mm I am here. I’m going to paste in two kinds of weather maps for each day. Meteorologists made these maps from the data they collected. One map shows the temperature during the warmest part of the day. The other shows how much precipitation fell in the last 24 hours. Snow is one kind of precipitation. There’s also rain, hail, sleet, and more. 7 January 25 Temperature Depth of new snow Cloud cover 39°F 48 mm partly cloudy It snowed last night, just like the meteorologists predicted. I measured 48 mm of new snow on the path, but the map says my area only got 12 mm of precipitation or less. I asked my mom why the numbers don’t match. She told me snow is fluffy, so there’s a lot less water in a millimeter of snow than there is in a millimeter of rain. Mom said the map must mean the snow that fell here had the same amount of water as there would be in 12 mm of rain. 8 Today’s High Temperatures 80°F or above 70°F to 79°F 60°F to 69°F 50°F to 59°F 40°F to 49°F 30°F to 39°F 20°F to 29°F 10°F to 19°F 0°F to 9°F below 0°F I am here. Precipitation in the Last 24 Hours 75 mm or more 50 mm to 74 mm 25 mm to 49 mm 13 mm to 24 mm 1 mm to 12 mm less than 1 mm I am here. What part of the country is the coldest today? What part is the warmest? (If you want to look up the names of states, you can use the map at the back of this book.) 9 January 26 Temperature Depth of new snow Cloud cover 40°F 0 mm partly cloudy The temperature is almost the same as yesterday, and there are thin, wispy clouds streaking across the sky. I wonder what that means. 10 Today’s High Temperatures 80°F or above 70°F to 79°F 60°F to 69°F 50°F to 59°F 40°F to 49°F 30°F to 39°F 20°F to 29°F 10°F to 19°F 0°F to 9°F below 0°F I am here. Precipitation in the Last 24 Hours 75 mm or more 50 mm to 74 mm 25 mm to 49 mm 13 mm to 24 mm 1 mm to 12 mm less than 1 mm I am here. I notice that the precipitation map shows that my area of Colorado got some precipitation in the last 24 hours, but we didn’t get any at my house. Can you find where you live? Is the weather the same in your entire state? 11 January 27 Temperature Depth of new snow Cloud cover 43°F 0 mm overcast It’s a little warmer than yesterday, but the sky is overcast. Meteorologists are predicting that a big snowstorm is on the way. 12 Today’s High Temperatures 80°F or above 70°F to 79°F 60°F to 69°F 50°F to 59°F 40°F to 49°F 30°F to 39°F 20°F to 29°F 10°F to 19°F 0°F to 9°F below 0°F I am here. Precipitation in the Last 24 Hours 75 mm or more 50 mm to 74 mm 25 mm to 49 mm 13 mm to 24 mm 1 mm to 12 mm less than 1 mm I am here. The temperature maps from the last few days show a pattern of warmer air moving to the north in one area. Can you find where that is happening? 13 January 28 Temperature Depth of new snow Cloud cover 40°F 103 mm overcast Great big snowflakes are falling right now. The wind is blowing in very strong gusts. I wonder how much more snow will fall during this storm. 14 Today’s High Temperatures 80°F or above 70°F to 79°F 60°F to 69°F 50°F to 59°F 40°F to 49°F 30°F to 39°F 20°F to 29°F 10°F to 19°F 0°F to 9°F below 0°F I am here. Precipitation in the Last 24 Hours 75 mm or more 50 mm to 74 mm 25 mm to 49 mm 13 mm to 24 mm 1 mm to 12 mm less than 1 mm I am here. Which parts of the country have a lot of precipitation today? Do you think it’s snowing in all those places or could it be raining in some of them? 15 January 29 Temperature Depth of new snow Cloud cover 20°F 152 mm clear The snowstorm kept going last night. Today I used a ruler to measure how much snow fell. The snow was 152 millimeters (6 inches) deep! The trees look beautiful, and you can see the new snow on the mountains in the distance. It’s a clear, sunny day, but it’s very cold. 16 Today’s High Temperatures 80°F or above 70°F to 79°F 60°F to 69°F 50°F to 59°F 40°F to 49°F 30°F to 39°F 20°F to 29°F 10°F to 19°F 0°F to 9°F below 0°F I am here.
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