Observing Wind!

After waiting several days, we were finally able to get out and make some observations about the wind today!  We wanted the children to experience the wind and to try to observe the direction of the wind.  We held salt in our hands to see if it would blow in the wind, felt wind in our hair and used our homemade weathervane.  We used all of these things to try to help us to determine the direction of the wind.  We also introduced the four cardinal directions (North, South, East and West) while trying to determine wind direction.  We placed our weathervanes in the center of the sidewalk and had 4 of our friends hold the direction signs in the appropriate places.  We determined that the wind seemed to be blowing east, but our weathervanes were pointing west!  We had many more questions that we will continue to explore over the next few weeks.  Below is a video of our weathervane in action and some other shots from our wind photographers Charlie S, Sevana and Zach.