Sort Days by Their Weather
Group recorded days by a stated weather label.
Supplied materials
- Use the supplied fictional observations or model. Paper and pencil are optional; spoken answers are welcome. No equipment or real experiment is needed.
Learn the idea
After reading a weather record, you can put entries with the same label together. A group might contain rainy days or cloudy days. Read each entry before moving it into a group. A cloudy sky and falling rain are different observations; use the exact labels in this little record.
Our pretend noon record says: day 1 cloudy; day 2 rainy; day 3 cloudy; day 4 sunny. There is one label for each day in this activity. Real weather descriptions can include more than one feature at a time. Sorting these four entries tells us about the record, without requiring a trip outdoors.
- Have an adult read the four labels.
- Draw or say three group names: cloudy, rainy, sunny.
- Place each day number in its matching group.
- Count the entries in each group and check that there are four altogether.
See the method in action
The cloudy group has days 1 and 3: two days. The rainy group has day 2: one day. The sunny group has day 4: one day. 2 + 1 + 1 = 4 entries.
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cloudy
Days 1 and 3 both say cloudy, so the cloudy group has two entries. The record has no snowy entry.
Take it further
Change day 4 from sunny to cloudy. The cloudy group now has three entries and the sunny group has none; the rainy count stays one.
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