What skills do campus weather stations build in students?

Campus weather stations are an excellent teaching aid to help students understand and explore meteorology in greater depth. So the question arises, how can you use a school weather station for hands-on teaching and learning activities? I've come up with a few ways that I hope will help school teachers.

One is to let students do it themselves. Teachers can lead students to the weather station for field observation, let them operate the instruments and record the data with their own hands, so as to enhance their perceptual understanding of meteorology.

Second, let students analyse the data. The observed data should be collated, analysed and interpreted. For example, they may study the changes in wind direction and wind speed, or compare the differences in temperature and humidity at different time periods. This helps to develop students' ability to process and analyse data.

Third, writing reports. Teachers can guide students to write scientific reports describing the process and results of their observations. This helps to improve students' scientific writing and presentation skills.

Fourth, predicting trends. Using the data provided by the campus weather station, teachers can guide students to predict future weather conditions. This helps develop students' thinking and decision-making skills.

Fifth, to conduct popular science lectures. Professionals can be invited to organise regular meteorological science lectures on meteorology, such as climate change, disaster prevention and mitigation. This helps broaden students' scientific horizons and improve their scientific literacy.

Sixth, mutual help discussion. Lead students to have interactive discussions. For example, they can discuss the climatic characteristics of different seasons, or discuss the impact of climate change on their lives. This helps to improve students' communication and co-operation skills.

From those words above, we can see that students can develop quite a lot of abilities around the campus weather station, which is a handy tool.