Your child has been using our Meteorology and Weather loans box in school. NUSTEM loans boxes are linked to STEM careers and contain original objects and replicas that can be handled and used as part of classroom activities. While using the resources in the boxes, children get the opportunity to try out and explore some of the skills, techniques, equipment and ideas that STEM professionals use on a day-to-day basis.
Our meteorology and weather box contains the equipment children need to observe and record the weather and become meteorologists!
Try this at home
Visit our STEM at home Wind Socks page to use an empty plastic bottle, some carrier bags, and a piece of string to discover more about the wind.
Careers links- what is a meteorologist?
Meteorologists need to know what the weather is doing now, calculate how this will change in the future and use their expert knowledge to refine the details.
They observe and record the weather 24 hours a day across the globe and combine this with satellite pictures to see how the Earth’s atmosphere is behaving: in terms of temperature, precipitation, air pressure and cloud cover.
Meteorologists use thermometers to measure temperature, barometers to measure air pressure and anemometers for measuring wind speed. They use weather balloons to measure temperature, air pressure, wind speed and wind direction in the troposphere, the lowest layer Earth’s atmosphere and where almost all weather conditions take place.
Meteorologists feed the weather data collected into a supercomputer that performs complex equations to create models that predict the future weather. They check their models to make sure their forecasts are going to plan and adjust them where necessary.
Did you know that some weather presenters on television and radio are meteorologists?
Careers linked to the Meteorology and Weather box
Your child may have looked at these careers at school.
Each career has 3 personal qualities to focus on. We call these attributes. We want to show children that they already have the skills that they need to have a career in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths (STEM).