What is a rain gauge?

Meteorologists use lots of tools to help them predict the weather!  We are studying a few of those tools this week.

Yesterday, we researched about rain gauges and learned that they tell us how much precipitation we have had so far. After researching, we built our own rain gauge.

We placed our rain gauge outside of our classroom to observe the amount of precipitation we get over the next few weeks!

After building our rain gauge, we learned about the water cycle!  We learned about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.  As a class, we created our very own water cycle in a bag to watch the cycle take place!

We learned this song to help us remember the water cycle.