Activity T9: Weather on Tiritiri Matangi

Tiritiri Matangi Activity	Teacher Manual P 32 Science Level 3 Making Sense of Planet Earth and Beyond Created 21/09/2001	AO1 - Students can investigate the major features, including the water cycle, that characterise the earth's water reserves. SLO - Students will be able to research weather recording and forecasting on Tiritiri Matangi. © Heurisko Ltd www.learnz.org.nz/2001

Read Hauraki Gulf Weather and Weather Recording. What weather features would you be able to observe or feel if you went outside?             Ray Walter is a Department of Conservation Ranger on Tiritiri Matangi. He reads the weather equipment and observes the weather conditions twice a day. Draw a sketch of the equipment he uses and list the data he collects from it. Equipment Sketch of equipment Data Ray collects from equipment Thermometer     Equipment Sketch of equipment Data Ray collects from equipment Hygrometer (wet and dry thermometers)     Equipment Sketch of equipment Data Ray collects from equipment Rain gauge     Equipment Sketch of equipment Data Ray collects from equipment Weather vane     Equipment Sketch of equipment Data Ray collects from equipment Anemometer     Equipment Sketch of equipment Data Ray collects from equipment Barograph     Cloud cover. How do you think Ray judges what percentage of the sky is covered in cloud? Take a look out the window and record the features of the clouds you see. What percentage of the sky is covered in cloud? How did you estimate this? How fast are the clouds moving? What shape are the clouds and are they changing shape? How close are they to each other? Make a prediction about tomorrow's weather from what you can see.