Objectives

General Objectives
1. Promote: The primary goal of weather station project is to promote
environmental sustainability by reusing materials that would
otherwise be discarded as waste. By using recycled components, the
project helps reduce the demand for new resources and minimizes the
environmental impact associated with producing new materials.

2. Evaluate: One of the main goals is to provide a hands-on learning

experience, particularly for students and community members. The
project serves as a platform to teach participants about weather
monitoring, data collection, and the importance of sustainable
practices.

Specific Objectives
3. Analyze: The weather station's functional goal is to collect accurate
weather data, including temperature, humidity, precipitation, wind
speed, and direction. The data collected can be analyzed to better
understand local weather patterns, climate trends, and their
implications.

4. Learning: A recycled weather station project aims to engage the

community in a collaborative and positive manner. It encourages
participation and involvement from residents, schools, local
organizations, and other stakeholders, fostering a sense of community
pride and ownership.

5. Create: The project stimulates creativity and problem-solving skills

by challenging participants to design and build a functional weather
station using recycled materials. It encourages innovative thinking and
resourcefulness.
 Cold and Heat

Changes in weather are caused by changes in temperature, depending on how

hot or cold the air is. Therefore, it is important to measure the temperature
accurately. To measure it we use a thermometer. The thermometer usually
consists of a long, thin tube containing a liquid (mercury or alcohol),
sensitive to changes in temperature. When these liquids get hot, they expand,
take up more space, and move up the tube. Then we read the temperature
with a scale that is in the tube

Materials
1. A sturdy plastic bottle with a cap
2. A plastic straw
3. Clay
4. Duct tape
5. Rigid cardboard
6. Water
7. Watercolors

Steps
1. Ask an adult to poke a hole in a bottle cap. Join the pieces making sure
that the water oozes out of the straw when you put the stopper on. Let
the water sit for an hour and mark the water level on the scale
2. Put the thermometer in a container with very cold water and in one with
very hot water. Watch how the water level changes
 The winds

The two most important factors of the wind are the force or speed and the
direction in which it blows. We use the vane or an air sleeve (cloth tube
through which the wind passes). The force of the wind is measured with the
Beaumont scale, with air hoses or with special devices called anemometers.
These machines have several small bowls that rotate when it is windy. The
speed at which they rotate is measured with a scale

Materials
1. Thick cardboard
2. Pen cap
3. Clay
4. Brick

Steps
1. Cut an arrow out of thick cardboard and glue it down the middle to a
pen cap
 2. Put a knitting needle or a wooden stick on a solid base, such as a brick,
so it won't move. Put the cap on the pen with the arrow on it

3. Place the weather vane outside where it will blow in the wind. Remember
that the arrow will point the direction from which the wind is coming. Ask
an adult to help you check the wind direction with a compass
 The rain

The drops of water are formed inside the clouds, when the millions of tiny
drops collide against each other, coming together and forming larger and
heavier drops. Over time, the drops become so heavy that they can no longer
float in the air and fall from the clouds as rain.
Each drop of water is made up of approximately one million cloud droplets.
Rain falls from the clouds and ends up returning to the air as water vapor.
This is how part of an endless cycle is formed, which we call the water cycle
Build a simple rain gauge to record the amount of rainwater

Materials
1. Plastic bottle
2. A scale

Steps
1. Cut a plastic bottle in half and flip the top over to make a funnel
 2. Paint a scale and stick it on the outside of the bottle

3. Keep a daily record of how much rainwater you collect over several weeks,
even months, and make a table of your results.
 Air Pressure

Air pressure is measured with an instrument called a barometer. We will try

to make your own barometer. Air pressure can also change with temperature.
The hot air rises and the pressure drops. On the other hand, the cold air goes
down and the atmospheric pressure goes up.

Materials
1. Globe
2. Rubber
3. Duct tape
4. Plastic boat
5. Straw
6. Cardboard scale
7. Wooden base

Steps
1. Cut a small piece of balloon, stretch it on top of a plastic bottle and
secure it with a rubber band
 2. Tape the straw in the middle of the balloon

3. Mark a scale on a piece of cardboard and put it next to your

barometer

4. Look at the barometer every day at the same time and mark where the
straw reaches on the scale. Pressure changes cause the balloon and straw to
move up and down

• High pressure : The straw rises

• Low pressure : The straw goes down
 Costs

Materials Prices

Globe Lp. 3
Straws Lp 20
Water colors Lp. 50
Clay Lp. 50
Duct tape Lp. 20
Total Lp. 143

Big part of the materials we used were completely recycled, they are very
accessible to get, we didn’t needed to spend a lot of money in our materials,
which is the point of our proyect, so people could afford and make it by their
own.
1. Accesible materials
2. None expensive
3. Recycle
4. The materials can be reused after the proyect