The wind has been howling here in Maine for the last two days. As my daughter says, “it’s soooo windy.” She asked me this morning why it was so windy outside. That’s a hard concept for a two year old to grasp, but I tried my best to explain it to her. If you have kids who are a little bit older than mine, the following videos do a good job of explaining what creates wind.

Crash Course Kids covered the question “what makes the wind?” in a video released a few years ago. The video uses the backdrop of a beach to illustrate the roles of temperature and air pressure in creating windy conditions.

Met Office is a YouTube channel that produces weekly videos about meteorology. They covered the question of “what causes wind to blow?” in the following short video. The video does not have any narration, just subtitles. I prefer the visuals in the Met Office video to the ones in the Crash Course Kids video.

Applications for Education
Both videos are suitable for elementary school or middle school science lessons. Try using a tool like ClassHook’s Pause Prompts or EDpuzzle to build questions into the videos.