Measuring air pressure

It was a cloudy day at Brownsville Middle School...

This week we learned how to measure different aspects of weather such as temperature (with a thermometer), wind speed (with an anemometer), rain fall (with a rain gauge) and air pressure (with a barometer).

For our lab we built our own barometers to understand how air pressure works. The great thing about this lab was how we used materials anyone can buy from Publix!


The students did SUCH a great job building their barometers and simulating higher air pressure!