Wind Sock Creation and Observation | NPT3
8/4/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
The hands-on experience of making a wind sock combines literacy skills and science.
To help learn about wind, you can make a wind sock with your kids. There's a fun Curious George video on PBS LearningMedia to help. Then you can measure the wind, record what happens, and make predictions for the future. This experience can be fun to find out whether the predictions about the wind near your home are right, and it's a great way to help your kids learn about the world around them.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Wind Sock Creation and Observation | NPT3
8/4/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
To help learn about wind, you can make a wind sock with your kids. There's a fun Curious George video on PBS LearningMedia to help. Then you can measure the wind, record what happens, and make predictions for the future. This experience can be fun to find out whether the predictions about the wind near your home are right, and it's a great way to help your kids learn about the world around them.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Kaleb, can you tell me what do you think is making the leaves move right now?
- Maybe the wind.
- Ah, I think you might be right.
I love when we tie literacy and science together in a hands-on experiment.
- Yeah, it's a great day to play in the wind.
- To help learn about wind, we start with a video that explains what it is.
(rushing wind) Next, we make our windsock to measure the wind and record what happens.
- Right there?
- Yeah, that's perfect.
- I encourage Kaleb to make predictions about how strong the wind will be and then we use descriptions to track it.
No wind, gentle, moderate, or strong.
I explain that it's important for scientists to follow the same process every day when collecting data.
That means checking the windsock at the same time and making sure it's always in the same spot.
Were his predictions about the wind at our house right?
It's always fun to find out.
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