Materials List:
Wild Wind!
Making Weather Vanes to Find Prevailing Winds
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_earth_lesson04_activity1
Making Weather Vanes to Find Prevailing Winds
Each group needs:
- scissors
- marker and pencil
- plastic soft drink bottle, smaller than 1-liter size (ask students to bring bottles to class the week before the activity)
- plastic drinking straw, not the bendable kind
- aluminum pie tin filled with small rocks, such as small landscaping rock
- white glue
- magnetic compass
- cellophane or masking tape, 3-4-inch strip
Each student needs: