1)   Imagine that it is a rainy day and you are looking out the window.  Describe, in your journal, what you see and how you feel while this is happening.  What comes to your mind in the form of memories, wishes, and emotions?  Make a picture to accompany your essay.

2)  Write a poem in which you describe a trip to a cloud.  How do you see the world from up there?  How does it feel to float above the everyday surroundings?  What type of cloud is it and how does it affect your emotions?

3)  Write a letter to a friend explaining how much you have learned about pollen and its relationship to weather.  Recommend a few activities for days with different pollen counts.  For example, on a day with a very high pollen count, you would recommend an indoors activity to somebody who has pollen allergies. 

4)  Imagine that you are pollen grain and you are travelling through the air. 
Describe your journey and where it will take you.  Is there any particular place where you would like to stop?  Why?  What is your final destination?   Which people do you see?  What is their reaction to you?

5)  What's in a Name?
For this activity, do the following: 

• Gather the students together where they can view a world map. 
• Tell them that there are special winds that blow only certain times of the year and only in certain places.  Many of these winds have names and some of them are unusual; a few are funny.
• Give them the following examples and have the students find the locations on the map:

              India: Monsoon and Elephanta             Africa: Haboob and Sirocco         
             Alaska: Williwaw                                  United States Rockies: Chinook
             Australia: Cockeyed Bob                      China: Kwat 
             Argentina: Pamperos 

• Ask: If you had a chance to name a wind, what would you call it?  Why? 

            Where would it blow? What kind of a wind would it be? 
            What weather would it bring? 
• Give them a choice of writing:

  A story about their imaginary wind. 
  A report about one of the winds above or another that interests them. 

 
Note: Activity # 5 is taken from the Wonderful World of Weather. (A CIESE Real Time Data Project)