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WeatherBug Vocabulary Bingo
Type of Activity:
Game: Interactive activity that is competitive, and allows students to learn at the same time.
Activity Overview:
WeatherBug Bingo is a fun and engaging game for you to play with students! Bingo is a game of luck and
concentration where students try to match the definition of a randomly selected weather term to their
Weather Bingo cards.
Target Grade Level: 5-12
Time: 30 minutes
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
• Use knowledge of weather terms
• Place chip in the appropriate space on the bingo card
• Add new words to vocabulary through game playing
Supplies:
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WeatherBug Bingo cards and coordinating chips (10 Bingo cards included)
Weather Word Index Cards (1 set following this page; cut to size)
WeatherBug Bingo Study Sheet (1 copy included; make copies if you wish to give to each student as
a follow-up to the activity)
Play WeatherBug Bingo:
• Divide the students into 10 or less groups, and give each group a Bingo card and the
coordinating chips.
• Shuffle your Weather Bingo cards.
• Pick one out of the stack and announce it to the students by giving the DEFINITION ONLY.
• Hearing the definition of the weather term, students will find the correct weather term and place a
Bingo chip where it matches.
• The first group to get all words in a row (either up and down, or diagonally) and yell out BINGO
first, WINS!
A prize to the winning team is a great idea!
After you’ve played, go through each weather term and talk about its meaning with the students!
How can teachers use this activity in WeatherBug Achieve?
Activities/Lessons:
Library:
All lessons have vocabulary words or key words.
Elementary Glossary
ESOL Glossary
Stormopedia
Tools:
Map Gallery (Forecast icons)
An instrument designed to measure
wind speed and direction.
(Anemometer)
An instrument that measures
atmospheric pressure.
(Barometer)
A temperature scale where zero is
assigned to the temperature where
water freezes and 100 to the temperature
where water boils (at sea level).
A transition zone where a cold air
mass advances and replaces a
warm air mass.
(Celsius Scale)
(Cold Front)
The temperature to which the
air must be cooled to condense
(i.e. forms dew or frost).
The region in the center of a hurricane
or tropical storm where the winds are
light and skies are clear to partly cloudy.
(Dew Point)
(Eye)
A towering cloud in which
thunderstorms are found.
A temperature scale where 32 is
assigned to the temperature where water
freezes and 212 to the temperature
where water boils (at sea level).
(Cumulonimbus)
(Fahrenheit Scale)
A cloud with its base at the Earth's
surface. The only cloud you can touch
when you are standing on the ground.
Hint: Typically occurs in the morning
and in mountain valleys.
(Fog)
The sound due to rapidly expanding
gases along the channel of a lightning
discharge.
The transition zone between
two different air masses.
Hint: There are “warm” ones, “cold” ones and
“stationary” ones.
(Front)
A scale of wind damage from tornadoes
in which wind speeds are inferred from an
analysis of wind damage:
F0 (weak): 40- 72 mph, light damage.
F1 (weak): 73-112 mph, moderate damage.
F2 (strong): 113-157 mph, considerable damage.
F3 (strong): 158-206 mph, severe damage.
F4 (violent): 207-260 mph, devastating damage.
F5 (violent): 261-318 mph, (rare) incredible damage.
(Thunder)
(Fujita Scale)
A tornado whose circulation has not
reached the ground. Often appears as
a rotating cone like cloud that extends
downward from the base of a thunderstorm.
Balls or chunks of ice which are produced
due to strong updrafts in thunderstorms.
(Funnel Cloud)
(Hail)
The temperature it feels like when you combine
the air temperature with the relative humidity.
Hint: Mainly a factor during the summer months.
(Heat Index)
An intense, rotating column of air that
protrudes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the
shape of a funnel or a rope whose circulation
is present on the ground.
(Tornado)
A severe tropical storm having winds in
excess of 64 knots (74 mi/hr).
Relatively strong winds that occur in the upper
atmosphere. Weather systems get pushed by
these upper-level winds.
(Hurricane)
(Jet Stream)
A visible electrical discharge
produced by thunderstorms.
A front that moves in such a way that
warm air replaces cold air.
(Lightning)
The temperature it feels like when you combine
the temperature with high winds.
(Warm Front)
A coastal local wind that blows from the
ocean onto the land.
Hint: Mainly a factor during the winter months.
(Wind Chill)
(Sea Breeze)
A type of precipitation consisting of small
pellets of ice. Rainfall that freezes before it
hits the ground.
A low, gray cloud layer with a rather
uniform base whose precipitation is
most commonly drizzle.
(Sleet)
(Stratus Clouds)
WeatherBug Vocabulary Bingo
Study Sheet
Anemometer – An instrument designed to measure
wind speed and direction.
Barometer – An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
Celsius Scale – A temperature scale where zero is
assigned to the temperature where water freezes
and 100 to the temperature where water boils (at
sea level).
Cold Front – A transition zone where a cold air
mass advances and replaces a warm air mass.
Cumulonimbus – A towering cloud in which thunderstorms are found.
Dew Point – The temperature to which the air must
be cooled to condense (i.e. forms dew or frost).
Eye – The region in the center of a hurricane or
tropical storm where the winds are light and skies
are clear to partly cloudy.
Fahrenheit Scale – A temperature scale where 32 is
assigned to the temperature where water freezes
and 212 to the temperature where water boils (at
sea level).
Fog – A cloud with its base at the Earth's surface.
The only cloud you can touch when you are standing on the ground. Typically occurs in the morning
and in mountain valleys.
Front – The transition zone between two different
air masses. Hint: There are “warm” ones, “cold”
ones and “stationary” ones.
Fujita Scale – A scale of wind damage from tornadoes in which wind speeds are inferred from an
analysis of wind damage:
- F0 (weak): 40- 72 mph, light damage.
- F1 (weak): 73-112 mph, moderate damage.
- F2 (strong): 113-157 mph, considerable
damage.
- F3 (strong): 158-206 mph, severe damage.
- F4 (violent): 207-260 mph, devastating
damage.
- F5 (violent): 261-318 mph, (rare) incredible
damage.
Funnel Cloud – A tornado whose circulation has
not reached the ground. Often appears as a rotating cone-like cloud that extends downward from the
base of a thunderstorm.
Hail – Balls or chunks of ice which are produced
due to strong updrafts in thunderstorms.
Heat Index – The temperature it feels like when
you combine the air temperature with the relative
humidity. Hint: Mainly a factor during the summer
months.
Hurricane – A severe tropical storm having winds in
excess of 64 knots (74 mi/hr).
Jet Stream – Relatively strong winds that occur in
the upper atmosphere. Weather systems get
pushed by these upper-level winds.
Lightning – A visible electrical discharge produced
by thunderstorms.
Sea Breeze – A coastal local wind that blows from
the ocean onto the land.
Sleet – A type of precipitation consisting of small
pellets of ice. Rainfall that freezes before it hits the
ground.
Stratus Clouds – A low, gray cloud layer with a
rather uniform base whose precipitation is most
commonly drizzle.
Thunder – The sound due to rapidly expanding
gases along the channel of a lightning discharge.
Tornado – An intense, rotating column of air that
protrudes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the shape
of a funnel or a rope whose circulation is present
on the ground.
Warm Front – A front that moves in such a way
that warm air replaces cold air.
Wind Chill – The temperature it feels like when you
combine the temperature with high winds. Mainly
a factor during the winter months.
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