MOSI Outreach Program will present a one hour program titled Weather Wonders presenting ideas from the water cycle to lightning strikes, take a deep dive into the wonders of weather! Have fun as we investigate how heat, pressure, and water combine to create both familiar phenomena and extreme storms. Crush a can, channel lightning, or create a cloud as we take a closer look at the physics of our forecast!

Students will launch the sustainability project by experiencing weather and water phenomena, observing how people in the school use and waste resources, and capturing early evidence about user needs and school problems they may later address.

Students will synthesize evidence from the MOSI weather launch, campus observations, and early waste questions to define a focused school sustainability problem statement that names a real user need and is grounded in science and data.

Students will generate multiple school-focused conservation ideas, sort them by evidence and user needs, and choose one promising direction for a later draft.

Students will turn their selected conservation ideas into first drafts by building a labeled water-cycle model and a rough team proposal poster that uses cafeteria waste evidence. They will apply earlier science, math, and problem-framing work to make visible artifacts that can be tested and improved in the next phase.

Students will test their draft water-conservation and food-waste proposal materials with peers, gather specific feedback on scientific accuracy, math evidence, and audience clarity, and identify revisions needed before critique.

Students will use a structured critique circle to examine their team’s water-cycle model, cafeteria waste poster, and conservation proposal, then gather peer feedback and identify specific revisions that improve scientific accuracy, data interpretation, and usefulness for the school community.

Students will synthesize what they learned from the water cycle, weather, and cafeteria waste investigation by documenting how their ideas changed, connecting evidence to their final conservation recommendations, and identifying realistic next steps after presenting to school leadership.