Weather Lapbook for Elementary Students

Teach your elementary students all about the weather and weather forecasting with this free weather lapbook.

We are all affected by the weather, but most of us don’t really know much about what causes weather changes or how weather forecasts are made.

This interactive Weather learning folder contains 18 different printable activities all about forecasting and different types of weather.

For junior high students who want to learn about the weather more in depth, check out this weather class schedule.

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Here are the resources used in the Weather Lapbook:

If you can’t find these exact books, you can use books available to you on the same subjects. These are listed in order of reading difficulty.

What Will the Weather Be? (a Let’s Read and Find Out book) by Lynda DeWitt

Down Comes the Rain (a Let’s Read and Find Out book) by Dr. Franklyn M. Branley OOP, but the ebook is on Hoopla

Feel the Wind (a Let’s Read and Find Out book) by Arthur Dorros

Weather Forecasting and Weather Words and What They Mean, both by Gail Gibbons

Weather Mania: Discovering What’s Up and What’s Coming Down by Michael A. DiSpezio

Eyewitness Books: Weather by Brian Cosgrove

Weather Lapbook Activities:

• Vocabulary – Here is a list of possible vocabulary words: greenhouse effect, convection, precipitation, hail, dew, frost, cloud seeding, troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere, condensation, highs and lows, wind velocity, air masses, fronts, squall lines, thunderstorms, tornado, hurricane.
• Temperature – Record high and low temperatures; convert C to F and back.
• Water Cycle – Draw and illustrate the water cycle. If you want to study the water cycle more in depth, here is a free water cycle lapbook.
• Bible Verse – Write your favorite weather-related Bible verse. If you can’t think of one, try looking up weather in Nave’s Topical Bible.
• Sayings – Write some popular weather idioms.
• Meteorology – Write about the history of meteorology and about some of the tools used in meteorology.
• Forecasting – Keep track of daily forecasted and actual temperatures for a week. Figure the meteorologist’s accuracy.
• Clouds – Write about the different kinds of clouds.
• Extreme Weather – Write about tornadoes, hurricanes, and monsoons.
• Thunder and Lightning – Write about the causes of thunder and lightning.
• Fog, Frost, and Dew – Explain what causes fog, frost, and dew.
• Rainbows – Write about rainbows.
• Wind – Explain what causes wind.
• Fronts and Lows – Explain what causes weather fronts and lows and how they affect the weather.
• Symbols – Draw some weather symbols.
• Atmosphere – Name and explain the 5 layers of the atmosphere.
• Greenhouse Effect – Write about the greenhouse effect.
• Precipitation – Explain the different types of precipitation.

Related Weather Pages:

• Daily Weather Worksheet – Fahrenheit
• Daily Weather Worksheet – Celsius
• Weather and Seasons Notebooking Pages
• Water Cycle Notebooking
• Clouds Worksheet

Be sure to pin this Weather Lapbook: