Students learn that weather maps are compiled from weather stations across the country. They learn how to decode a station model and how to read weather data on a map.

Student Resources

• 6.1 Vocabulary
• 6.2 Reading a Weather Map
• 6.3 Section 6 Assessment

Learn by Reading

For additional content-area reading, check out the Houghton Mifflin Science eBook: Grade 5, Unit D, pages 20–21.