Activity: Estimating Winds on the Beaufort Scale

Activity: Estimating Winds on the Beaufort Scale
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Give students practice estimating winds on the Beaufort scale. After reading the passage in this printable, students will match the effects of the wind to its Beaufort number on the chart. Then they will observe things moved by wind, and estimate wind speed for five days.

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Beaufort Wind Scale

The Beaufort Wind Scale was designed in 1805 by Sir Francis Beaufort, a rear admiral in the British navy, to describe th...

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