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Teachers! Learn how your school can measure and report precipitation to help the National Weather Service!
A great benefit of CoCoRaHS is that it provides real science activities for the classroom. CoCoRaHS staff have worked with teachers and curriculum developers to curate a series of lesson plans and activities below. These lesson plans are developed for a variety of grade levels. Read here about how CoCoRaHS meets state and national standards for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-7, 9-12. LessonsThe Paleontological Research Institution and the 4-H Youth Development program at Cornell Cooperative Extension have developed a curriculum on weather and climate for upper elementary and secondary school youth: Tracking Climate in Your Backyard. This National Science Foundation-backed project conducted by a team of North Carolina-based educators and researchers wrote this series of 9 lesson plans with the goal of bringing citizen science into classrooms to engage students with standards-aligned science content and practices. See more here if you'd like to also incorporate the Lost Ladybug Project (focused on ecosystems and biodiversity) as an accompanying project to CoCoRaHS (weather and precipitation). Written by the UCAR Center for Science Education - this lesson explores data from an unusual rain event. Written by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - This data exercise has students look up precipitation ground data and satellite data for a site in Washington State and do a comparison using a data table and a graph. The activity is expected to take about 45 minutes. Written by NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission - This data exercise has students compare NASA satellite precipitation data to your measured CoCoRaHS data (or a selected station near your school).
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