Weather and Dams | Vegas PBS STEAM Camp

Vegas PBS STEAM Camp | Weather and Dams

SEASON 1: EPISODE 3| Airdate: 8/21/2020

Explore how National Weather Service meteorologists predict and measure the weather to keep you safe. Then, visit Hoover Dam to learn why dams were built along the Lower Colorado River.

Investigate each topic further through interactive at-home STEAM challenges and book talks with librarians from the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.

Episode Guests

• Trevor Boucher, Lead Meteorologist, National Weather Service
• Natalie Starfish, Electrical/SCADA Engineering Supervisor, Lower Colorado Dams Office, U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation
• Shana Harrington, Librarian, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
• Luis, Student
• Zinnia, Student

Lesson Plans

• Weather - Virtual Instruction Lesson Plan (PDF)
• Dams - Virtual Instruction Lesson Plan (PDF)

Resources

• Nature Cat: Windy Weather (Grade 3)
• Nature Cat: What’s With Wind (Grades 1-2)
• Cyberchase: Reading a Thermometer
• Peep and the Big Wide World: Building Dams
• Science Trek: Dams
• Wild Kratts: Building a Beaver Pond
• The Engineering Design Process
• Wind Speed Data Collection Chart

Books Featured

• The Weather Girls by Aki
• Maker Lab Outdoors: 25 Super Cool Project: Build, Invent, Create, Discover by Jack Challoner
• Building the Hoover Dam by Rebecca Stefoff
• Canals and Dams! With 25 Science Projects for Kids by Anita Yasuda
• The Dam by David Almond

If you would like ideas and free resources to help you implement Vegas PBS STEAM Camp in your afterschool or summer program, contact us at:
steamcamp@vegaspbs.org