Senior Infants have used so many scientific skills this week! We knew all about wind direction from our work last week, so this week we used an instrument called an anemometer to measure the wind speed. We measured the wind speed on Wednesday and discovered there was a “near gale” blowing. We know this because the anemometer spun up to number 7 on the Beaufort Scale.
For ten days we have collected and measured the rainfall, using a rain gauge. Only 1ml fell yesterday but earlier in the week we had a collection of 36ml! It was so much that we had to pour it into a bigger measuring jug to record the amount. Having collected all of our data, we made bar charts so as we can easily see the amount of rain that fell over the ten days. It has been great learning all about the weather and we carried out a survey in our class to see which is our favourite weather type. We recorded the results in a bar chart that we have displayed.
Great work everyone, enjoy a well earned weekend break!
