Need help with a weather project

[Ketia0 0]

I dont know if any of you have heard of the Royal Rangers, But I am a commander at the one in our church. We just started and this is all pretty new to us.

Anywho, we have a weather merit the kids have to earn. I need some ideas for projects that have to do with weather. I can think of anything off the top of my head. I did a Google search and came up with the tornado in a bottle... Lets just that that didnt work out to great..


Any ideas at all would be greatly appreciatted

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[wmw999 2,589]

A girl at a school locally used a homemade weathervane and a pencil to chart the wind direction on a daily basis in a set location (i.e. she tied the pencil to a stick on the rear end of the weathervane). I don't remember what she did with the data after that, but it was a pretty cool method that she used.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[AggieDave 6]

I was in RR and met Johnny Barnes before he died at a Pow Wow in Oklahoma. Was in FCF and earned the GMA. Went to Camporama and the FCF Rendezvous in the 90s.

Its always neat to find someone who *actually* knows what any of that is!

Back then the weather badge had a requirement to keep a weather log for a month, including high temp, low temp, humidity and any significant weather. Was that changed? A field trip to a weather station would be in order.

I know a lot of things have changed, that Straight Arrows, Buckaroos, Pioneers and Land/Air/Sea Rangers have pretty much gone away. That's really too bad.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Ketia0 0]

Thanks Wendy! Thats a good idea.
We could make the weather vanes and chart the data. You rock


Ordering my gear bag today

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[Ketia0 0]

Thats cool Aggie Dave!

Brother to be honest with ya, I dont know that much. We really just rolled this out at our church. I volunterred to help out with the Discovery Rangers. Im using the Commanders book and I call the AoG Royal Rangers part.. But its hard trying to figure it out. I was hoping the AG would hold a RR commander class here soon. My boys just earned thier Tool Craft Merit, Genisis Merit, and Exodus Merit.. Once they get the weather merit we will be finished with our first quarter.
Do you have any advice, for me? Since you atleast were in it at one time. lol. I work with boys from about 8-12... We havent had a field trip yet.. But that does sound like a good idea.

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[AggieDave 6]

What made my time in RR very special and much more enjoyable than my friend's experience in the Boy Scouts, were the camping trips. Besides the regional Pow Wow (I don't know what they call them now), our outpost would take at least one other camping trip during the summer.

Some other neat things would be to get someone with in the regional FCF to come setup their camp in the church lawn for a Sunday afternoon "camp out." Cooking traditional trail food out of a dutch oven (for example).

We also did some different side projects that had some sort of other meaning. Once, we had a kite contest. We had a book of kite designs (not just a standard cross, but lots of different designs), made the kites and church members voted on it one Sunday morning. Prizes were given out then everyone got to fly their kites that afternoon in the church lawn and had another cook out with burgers and hot dogs.

A lot of our activities centered around cooking something over a fire. A lot of other stuff we did (nature walks, day hikes, etc) centered around wilderness survival. We had great trips to things like natural history museums (usually with an Imax nature/space movie).

Regional FCF members would teach us how to throw tomahawks and knives, others taught us how to fire and care for black powder rifles. Some commanders taught us firearm safety with a 10/22.

All of my manuals and commander manuals are still at my parents house in a box somewhere...I might have to dig them out next time I get up to that part of Texas.

The biggest trick is to know that awards motivate the boys, even cheap ribbons and trophies given out for stuff outside of the badge/GMA program. Also, some boys just want to have fun and learn interesting things, they don't have any desire to have a GMA with a double buffalo. The activities are easy to come up with, just think of interesting things and make it a contest/game/adventure. The hard part is working in bible lessons. If you make it interesting then your outpost will grow and kids will want to be apart of it.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[skymama 37]

You could make a weather rock.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[futuredivot 0]

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You could make a weather rock.

And that, kiddos, is why they don't let girls join in the US


Not familiar with RR's, just grabbed that factoid from Wiki

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[quade 4]

What age are we talking about?

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[mutumbo 0]

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You could make a weather rock.

that was good.

Thanatos340(on landing rounds)--
Landing procedure: Hand all the way up, Feet and Knees Together and PLF soon as you get bitch slapped by a planet.

[Ketia0 0]

between 9-13

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[quade 4]

A couple of resources;
http://www.weather.gov/om/edures.shtml
http://eo.ucar.edu/educators/links_elem.html
http://eo.ucar.edu/educators/UsingKC_class_all.pdf

Tornado in a bottle looks interesting, but really doesn't teach anything they can use in their everyday life.

I'd start with the basics and show them why the seasons change; tilt of the earth, amount of direct sunlight on northern vs southern hemispheres during summer or winter. Unfortunately you missed a perfect date on that about a week and a half ago, but you can still ask them if they've noticed the days getting shorter.

All you really need is a globe and a light bulb.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[Ketia0 0]

Thanks Quade!

"In this game you can't predict the future. You just have to play the odds. "-JohnMitchell

[muff528 3]

I made a hygrometer in 6th grade. I used a human hair, a penny and a milk carton. I don't remember how to put it all together and you probably won't find an old waxed cardboard milk carton anyway. Come to think of it, the weather man no longer pays any attention to relative humidity (....they like to use "dewpoint" in their weather reports nowadays).
edit to add: These plans look just like the ones I remember.