Interesting Weather Charts 



The keeping of weather records is a valuable experience for the 

 pupil from several points of view. It makes him observing, it 

 teaches carefulness in recording observations ; he will surely attain 

 a certain amount of weather wisdom, and he will become familiar 

 with the movements of the sun and moon and of the earth move- 

 ments in relation to them. 



A daily weather record should be kept, for at least six months, 

 and the observations should be made twice a day, always at the 

 same hours. These records should include, the temperature, a 

 barometric record, if the school is fortunate enough to possess 

 such an instrument, the direction of the wind, the cloudiness or 

 clearness of the skies, dew or frost, rain or snow. It would also 

 be a good plan to add the time of the rising and setting of the sun 

 and moon. 



Last winter in the exhibit of New York Rural School work, during 

 Farmers' Week at the Cornell College of Agriculture, there were 

 many pleasing and interesting weather records shown. The most 

 simple and elementary were those done by the young children, 

 simply showing the weather by an umbrella; an umbrella shut 

 with handle up meant sunny weather; half open with handle 

 down meant cloudy weather; wholly open and ready for business 

 meant rain or snow. Sometimes it was a little boy or girl holding 

 the umbrella. 



One very attractive record was made on sheets of pale gray 

 paper, a sheet for every month ; and at the top of each was a water 

 color sketch, appropriate to that month. The one for March 

 was a cottontail rabbit, sitting up with lifted ears, amid dry bare 

 stalks of weeds and grass, his body partly outlined against a 

 rising full moon. The record for each day was a circle divided 

 by radii into six parts, each part colored to represent the weather 

 for the day. Warm and sunny was represented by yellow ; sunny 

 by orange; cloudy by green ; rain by black; snow by white; and 

 windy by blue. 



Another record was made by representing each day as a 

 square — divided into four smaller squares; in these snow was 

 represented by white, cloudy by pale gray, rain by dark gray, 

 and sunny by yellow. If it was sunny all day, the whole square 

 was yellow, etc. 



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